Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI)*
Abstract
*Formerly Foreign Language Rapid Response (FLRR) The Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) program will develop the capability to rapidly construct machine translation and other human language technologies for low-resource foreign languages. The United States military operates globally and frequently encounters low-resource languages, i.e., languages for which few linguists are available and no automated human language technology capability exists. Historically, exploiting foreign language materials required protracted effort, and as a result systems exist only for languages in widespread use and in high demand. The goal of the LORELEI program is to dramatically advance the state of computational linguistics and human language technology to enable rapid, low-cost development of language processing capabilities for low-resource languages. To achieve this LORELEI will eliminate reliance on huge, manually-translated, manually-transcribed, or manually-annotated corpora and instead will leverage language-universal resources, project from related-language resources, and fully exploit a broad range of language-specific resources. These capabilities will be exercised to provide situational awareness based on information from any language, in support of emergent missions such as humanitarian assistance/disaster relief, terrorist attack response, peacekeeping, and infectious disease response.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- 71416ff188a96db34d2a96172e4a5830