MeMAD translation models made in Helsinki are now integrated in Hugging Face transformers, the world’s most popular library for the workwith deep neural NLP models. They can be used by anyone and integrated in research, development and real-world applications making machine translation accessible without any dependence on commercial services and restricted terms and conditions. Language…
Imagine that a tourist calls an emergency service speaking a foreign language. How to find a person that speaks the right language? Or you have tons of multilingual television broadcasts in need of automatic translation or subtitling. Most current automatic speech recognition (ASR) and other language technology tools assume that the source language is known…
INA hosted our 6th in plenary meeting in Paris in the beginning of February. Together, we hashed out the final stages of development of our multimodal solutions and the final evaluation. We have made our open source contributions available at the MeMAD GitHub repository. If you haven’t checked them, be sure to follow the development. …
In his book, “Weaving the Web”, Sir Tim Berners-Lee shared his vision about the future of his creation: “In an extreme view, the world can be seen as only connections, nothing else. We think of a dictionary as the repository of meaning, but it defines words only in terms of other words. I liked the…
One important part of the MeMAD project is working with potential users of the tools developed, as well as presenting the research and development work to professional communities and wider public audiences. In November and early December of 2019, we carried out user evaluation with professional translators to find out what they thought about using…
Imagine that someone has recorded a series of hundreds of meetings and your task is to find out who spoke where and when. Sounds like a lot of transcription work, especially if the speaker turns are short, spontaneous and overlapping and sometimes hard to understand even after careful listening. The automatic approach to this task…
The European Broadcasting Union EBU’s annual Metadata Network MDN Workshop 2019 was organised in June 2019 in Geneva. It gathered 88 experts from different media companies, research institutes and vendor companies to share latest experiences and ideas related to metadata in the media business. Thematically related to MeMAD, many broadcasters are already working on automatic…
In September, the MeMAD project gathered in Surrey for the fifth plenary meeting. As we’re about half-way through the project, we drilled down to the most central use cases and continued planning of the evaluation process in the final 18 months of MeMAD. With all of the pieces of the puzzle coming together, it was…
