This federal contract award, valued at $11,332,859.00, was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of Southern California (USC) for the Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) program. The goal of LORELEI is to advance the state of computational linguistics and human language technology to enable rapid, low-cost development of capabilities for low-resource languages. This will support situational awareness and information gathering for...
This federal contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as the Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania, for the Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) program. The $12,234,739 contract, which has no set-aside designation, aims to advance computational linguistics and human language technology capabilities to enable rapid, low-cost development of tools for...
This is a $708,278 fixed-price contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Appen Butler Hill Inc. (Appen) to support DARPA's Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) program. Under this contract, Appen will collect and annotate speech data in 22 languages to support the development of LORELEI technologies, which aim to enable situational awareness of low-resource foreign languages within a short timeframe by leveraging language-universal...
This is a Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Crcl, Inc., a non-profit organization, for the LOW RESOURCE LANGUAGE FOR EMERGENT INCIDENTS (LORELEI) program. Under this $2,413,799.00 contract, Crcl will deliver cleaned, curated lexical data and cognate groupings for 800-1,000 of the roughly 2,000 generally poorly documented languages that belong to the Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Kra-Dai, and Sino-Tibetan language families....
This federal contract award, with an ID of HR001116C0102, was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL) to conduct research and development on incident language recognition and linking algorithms under Technical Areas 1.2 and 1.3 of the Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) program. The goal of LORELEI is to advance computational linguistics and human language technology to enable rapid...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $7,195,441.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Next Century Corporation, a subsidiary of CACI International Inc., to perform the "Technical Area (TA) 2 - Run-Time Framework Development" effort under the Low Resources Languages for Emergency Incidents (LORELEI) program. The contract, awarded on June 30, 2015, involves research and development to create a task-specific, run-time concept of operations and prototype that...
This $8,395,225.00 definitive contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to develop cross-cultural language understanding technologies under the Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU) program. The CCU program aims to improve situational awareness and effectiveness for Department of Defense (DoD) operators interacting across societies, languages, and cultural groups. The contract does not have a set-aside...
This is a $315,000 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The contract is for CMU's participation in DARPA's Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative (EEI), which aims to transition innovative commercial solutions derived from DARPA's research and development programs into new capabilities for the military and civilian sectors. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. CMU, a prestigious...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Language Computer Corporation, a small business, for research and development services related to force protection in the online environment under DARPA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The $99,956.11 Phase I contract is focused on developing next-generation natural language processing technologies to support capabilities such as multi-domain operations, information...
This is a $4,580,109.00 definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in support of the Dispersed Computing (DCOMP) program. The contract is a cost-no-fee arrangement without any set-aside designation. CMU, through its Office of Sponsored Programs Division, will provide technical services, research, and development to DARPA in areas such as artificial intelligence, robotics, computer science, and advanced engineering. The...
This is a federal contract award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) under DARPA's Low Resources Languages for Emergency Incidents (LORELEI) program. The goal of LORELEI is to advance computational linguistics and human language technology to enable rapid, low-cost development of capabilities for low-resource languages.
Under this $9,859,505 definitive contract, CMU will create universal typological inventories of orthography, phonology, morpho-syntax, and event semantics, and formalize them to be used in CMU's Analysis of Rare Incident-Event Languages (ARIEL) framework, named entity recognition, machine translation, and speech components. CMU will also develop software tools and interfaces for creation and management of the inventories.
The contract is not set aside for any specific business type. CMU has subcontracted portions of the work to organizations including Leidos, Inc., the University of Melbourne, and the University of Washington. As a leading research university, CMU's expertise in areas like artificial intelligence, robotics, and computational linguistics make it well-positioned to support DARPA's goals for advancing language technology capabilities.