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Information Technology Laboratory / Information Access Division

Multimodal Information Group

Projects/Programs

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Content-Based Access to Unstructured Information

Ongoing
The goal of the project is to support the development of automatic systems that can provide content-based access to information that has not been explicitly structured for machine consumption. This support is in the form of evaluation infrastructure, since to quote Lord Kelvin, "If you can not

Data Science

Ongoing
Current MIG Data Science project activities DARPA D3M. NIST is supporting the DARPA D3M (Data-Driven Discoveries of Models) program as part of the Test and Evaluation (Government) Team. The D3M Program aims to allow automated systems with subject matter experts to model and solve complex machine

Interdisciplinary Projects

Ongoing
Current: DARPA CCU (Computational Cultural Understanding) ​ Past: IARPA MATERIAL (Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language) DARPA LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) and LoReHLT (Low Resource Human Language Technologies) DARPA BOLT (Broad

Machine Translation

Ongoing
Current MT technology evaluation activities: OpenMT: A biannual NIST evaluation of text-to-text MT technology. Focus is placed on the core task of MT technology where information learned is applicable to other MT technology types. Past MT evaluation activities: LORELEI/LOREHLT, 2016-2019: Low

Speaker and Language Recognition

Ongoing
Current Speaker and Language Recognition technology activities: Speaker Recognition Evaluation series: (1996-) A biennial NIST evaluation of fully automated text-independent speaker recognition technology. View the 2012 NIST SRE report. Human Assisted Speaker Recognition Evaluation series: (2010- )

Speech Analytics

Ongoing
Current speech analytics work: OpenSAT is a new speech analytic evaluation series designed to include developers from multiple speech analytic technologies where common datasets are used in NIST evaluations. The goal is to bring together developers focused on different speech analytic tasks to

Video Analytics

Ongoing
Active evaluations/projects include: Activities in Extended Videos: The ActEV evaluation seeks to evaluate robust automatic activity detection algorithms for a multi-camera streaming video environment. ActEV will address activity detection for both forensic applications and for real-time