Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE)

Program Manager: Dr. Joseph Olive

Concept:

GALE utility consists of three integrated parts: transcription, translation, and distillation. Transcription, or the conversion of speech to text, is the first step in exploiting foreign language audio information. Translation is the conversion of foreign language text into English text, and is carried out on text transcribed from audio or obtained from foreign language text sources. GALE engines perform both of these processes in a completely automated fashion, without the intervention of human linguists.

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Distillation is a concept entirely new to GALE, in which relevant information is extracted from foreign language and English input and concisely presented to the user in English. GALE distillation is not a key-word search, and does not involve summarization. Instead, it utilizes language analysis techniques to identify information relevant to a user’s query, with the aim of extracting all available relevant information and nothing redundant.

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