DARPA's low resource languages for emergent incidents(LORELEI)program. LORELEI will research and develop human language technology that eliminates the current reliance on huge, manually-translated,…
Ended Definitive Contract Awarded Last action
- Contract number
- HR001115C0116
- Awardee
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Appen Butler Hill Inc. UEI HRU8T5KJ8GF3
- Awarding agency
-
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Department of Defense
- Obligated
- $708,278
Award facts
- Opportunity
-
- Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) Award Notice · Posted Jul 20, 2015
- Contract value 100% obligated
- $708,278.00 Current and potential, with all options
- Completion date 100% complete
- Current and potential, with all options
- Contracting staff
- NAICS code
- 541712 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
- Competition
- Full and Open Competition · 45 offers Basic Research
- Pricing
- Firm Fixed Price
- Place of performance
- Australia
Award details come from SAM.gov/FPDS.
Transactions
| Action | Obligated | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Other Administrative Action | $0 | |
| Funding Only Action | $46,333 | |
| Funding Only Action | $75,660 | |
| Definitize Change Order | $94,010 | |
| Other Administrative Action | $0 | |
| Other Administrative Action | $0 | |
| Supplemental Agreement for work within scope | $328,888 | |
| Other Administrative Action | $0 | |
| Funding Only Action | $67,470 | |
| Original award | $95,917 |
About this award
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 resources and projecting from related-language resources. The contract has no set-aside designation and is scheduled to be completed by October 31, 2019.
Description
DARPA's low resource languages for emergent incidents(LORELEI)program. LORELEI will research and develop human language technology that eliminates the current reliance on huge, manually-translated, manually-transcribed, or manually-annotated corpora to instead leverage language-universal resources, projecting from related-language resources, and fully exploiting a broad range of language-specific resources to support, through machine learning, situational awareness of low-resource foreign languages within a short timeframe. As a TA3.1 performer, appen shall collect and annotate (for topic) speech data in the 22 typologically representative languages designated by DARPA to support the development of the LORELEI technologies.
Quick answers
Who was awarded contract HR001115C0116?
HR001115C0116 was awarded to Appen Butler Hill Inc. by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Department of Defense) on July 20, 2015.
How much is contract HR001115C0116 worth?
The government has obligated $708,278 on HR001115C0116.
Was contract HR001115C0116 competed?
The extent of competition for HR001115C0116 was full and open competition. The government received 45 offers.
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