The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency has rolled out an automated event coder that works to identify almost 300 types of socio-political events in text. IARPA funded the release of the Accurate Events from Natural Text software in efforts boost activity in the research community, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence …
Read More »Army Research Lab, UK MoD Form Distributed Analytics & Info Science Alliance
The U.S. Army‘s research organization and the U.K. defense ministry have formed an alliance on distributed analytics and information science as part of efforts to increase situational awareness during military coalition operations. The DAIS International Technology Alliance aims to implement fundamental research efforts in order to facilitate dynamic analytics for coalition activities through public-private collaboration, the Army Research Laboratory …
Read More »IARPA Names Automatic Speech Recognition Challenge Winners; Mary Harper Comments
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will award $110,000 in total prizes to the winning teams of the Automatic Speech recognition in Reverberant Environments challenge. IARPA said Thursday the ASpIRE challenge launched in October 2014 sought speech recognition platforms that can transcribe a recorded speech and work on single microphone and …
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