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EARS
TIDES+EARS: Automated processing
of Arabic text & audio
Automated translation and classification of foreign language text and audio
Impact
Status
• TIDES: Translation – foreign language text to English text, including document classification
• EARS: Transcription – converts Arabic and Chinese speech to text
• TIDES and EARS
integration: Statistical learning – robust foreign language processing to extract
intelligence from open sources.
• CENTCOM using
automated processing to pull
intelligence from Arabic text and audio
• English-only
operators can now form a picture
in their mind of what is being discussed
in Arabic source material
• 100’s of
documents from dozens of sources translated
daily; 5-10 sent to NVTC for human translation
• Technology first used by US Forces Korea
• Automatic speech
recognition of English improved
dramatically from 1984 to 1993. Now, equally
dramatic improvement for Arabic ASR through
EARS
• Text and audio
processing of Arabic now possible
end-to-end. Two deployment units to CENTCOM
in 2004 for information exploitation from
Arabic open source material
Language Understanding/Translation