BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies Awarded $14 Million in DoD Funding to Advance Rapid Foreign Language Processing
Published in Health Business Week, August 14th, 2009
BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, has been awarded $14 million in funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the fourth year of the five-year Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE) program. The goal of GALE is to develop and apply software technologies to transcribe, translate, and distill large volumes of speech and text in multiple languages - all with more than 90% accuracy by the end of the program. Such a capability would help U.S. analysts recognize critical information in foreign languages quickly.
During the first three years of the GALE program, BBN met or exceeded the accuracy goals for automatic...
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Source: Health Business Week (2009-08-14)
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