Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI)

DARPA-BAA-15-04 - Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI). The United States Government operates globally and frequently encounters low-resource languages for which no automated human language technology capability exists. The goal of the LORELEI Program is to dramatically advance the state of computational linguistics and human language technology to enable rapid, low-cost development of capabilities for low-resource languages. These capabilities will be exercised to provide situational awareness based on information from any language, in support of emergent missions such as humanitarian assistance/disaster relief, peacekeeping, or infectious disease response.

The LORELEI Program will consist of three phase. Phase 1 will be 24 months long, while Phases 2 and 3 will be 12 months long each.

he United States Government operates globally and frequently encounters low-resource languages for which no automated human language technology capability exists. The goal of the Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) Program is to dramatically advance the state of computational linguistics and human language technology to enable rapid, low-cost development of capabilities for low-resource languages. These capabilities will be exercised to provide situational awareness based on information from any language, in support of emergent missions such as humanitarian assistance/disaster relief, peacekeeping, or infectious disease response.

The LORELEI Program will consist of three phase. Phase 1 will be 24 months long, while Phases 2 and 3 will be 12 months long each. The structure of the LORELEI Program will include the following Technical Areas (TAs) of interest:

TA1 - Algorithm Research and Development Environment
• Addresses the core research challenge of rapidly developing language processing tools for a language without reliance on large corpora or extensive human annotation efforts.
TA2 - Run-time Framework Development
• Focused on research and development of a task-specific, run-time concept of operations and a prototype that is capable of accepting various data streams, calling language-specific, LDTE-produced Web services built by TA1 performers, and running analysis tools on processed data to aggregate, summarize, and organize processed information.
TA3 - Linguistic Resource Creation
• Focused on collection, creation, and annotation of linguistic resources supporting the work of TA1 and TA2.

Awarded contract HR0011-15-C-0112 to Next Century Corporation for $1,680,453 on 2015-06-30.