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Information Technology Laboratory / Technology Test and Evaluation Division

Multimedia Language Technologies Group

Projects/Programs

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DARPA Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU)

Completed
The Department of Defense (DoD) operates globally and is in constant contact with diverse cultures, and cross-cultural miscommunication can derail negotiations, incite hostile discourse, or even lead to war. Despite advances in machine learning and multimedia analysis, existing human language...

Guardians of Forensic Evidence

Ongoing
The program addresses critical challenges including a gap between high research accuracy and a lack of ease-of-use in real-world applications, as well as the need for improved generalization capability and robustness against post-processing and anti-forensics filters. The specific image deepfake...

Open Speech Analytic Technologies (OpenSAT) Evaluation Series

Completed
The objectives of OpenSAT are as follows: To evaluate state-of-the-art speech analytics technologies specifically within the public safety communications domain. To provide a standardized forum where the speech analytics community could develop and test multiple technologies in parallel using a...

Speaker and Language Recognition

Ongoing
Current Speaker and Language Recognition Activities: Speaker Recognition Evaluation series: (1996-) A biennial NIST evaluation of fully automated text-independent speaker recognition technology. Human Assisted Speaker Recognition Evaluation series: (2010- ) A biennial NIST evaluation of approaches...

Text Analysis Conference

Completed
Mission TAC's mission is to support research within the Natural Language Processing community by providing the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of NLP methodologies. TAC's primary purpose is not competitive benchmarking; the emphasis is on advancing the state of the art through...

Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)

Ongoing
Its purpose was to support research within the information retrieval community by providing the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of text retrieval methodologies. In particular, the TREC workshop series has the following goals: to encourage research in information retrieval based...

TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation: TRECVID

Completed
The TREC conference series is sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) with additional support from other U.S. government agencies. The goal of the conference series is to encourage research in information retrieval by providing a large test collection, uniform scoring...
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