The MeMAD project is nearing completion. It is time to start looking at what we have accomplished. In the beginning of this year, we held a series of three webinars, in which we presented the MeMAD results and insight collected during the project from three different viewpoints: accessibility, research and media production. In addition, we…
Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, has published a blog post about the experiments our project has done with the machine-translated subtitles. Four video examples used in our consumer evaluations are also embedded in the article, shedding extra light on the two previous blog posts here in the MeMAD blog. Read more (in Finnish): https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2021/01/14/korean-kriisi-ja-zombeja-tornadossa-ylen-kokemuksia-automaattisista …
Maaseudun Tulevaisuus published two articles about machine translation and the MeMAD project, interviewing our researcher Maarit Koponen from the University of Helsinki Read more (in Finnish): Machine can translate and interpret even voice in the future: “It can be fairly useful for a tourist soon”, says a researcher. Do you know how Google Translate works…
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…
MeMAD project MeMAD project aims at designing cutting-edge audiovisual media indexing methods. This work will meet the need for automatic procedures required for the management of large audiovisual collections, as well as media accessibility for the visually and hearing impaired. INA contributed to the MeMAD platform with a software module dedicated to audio analysis: music…
Lingsoft will present MeMAD project at the exhibition of Digitality and logic of Internet on May 21st in Turku, Finland. The event gathers together research around digitality and digital huamities. Especially logic of Internet will be discussed in many of the presentations.