GALE: Global Autonomous Language Exploitation

Contact: Alex Waibel, Tanja Schultz, Stephan Vogel

The goal of GALE is to develop and apply computer software technologies to absorb, analyze and interpret huge volumes of speech and text in multiple languages, eliminating the need for linguists and analysts and automatically providing relevant, distilled actionable information to military command and personnel in a timely fashion.
Automatic processing "engines" will convert and distill the data, delivering pertinent, consolidated information in easy-to-understand forms to military personnel and monolingual English-speaking analysts in response to direct or implicit requests (mission statement from the official webpage).

For further information please see: www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/gale

Publications:

Nguyen Bach/, Mohamed Noamany, Ian Lane, and Tanja Schultz, '*Handling OOV Words in Arabic ASR Via Flexible Morphological Constraints*,'
Proceeding of Interspeech 2007 <http://www.interspeech2007.org/>, August 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.

Bing Zhao, /Nguyen Bach/, Ian Lane, and Stephan Vogel, '*A Log-linear Block Transliteration Model based on Bi-Stream HMMs*,' Proceeding of HLT-NAACL 2007 <http://<link http://www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07/ - external-link-new-window>www.cs.rochester.edu/meetings/hlt-naacl07/>, pp 364-371, April 2007, Rochester, NY, USA.