Language Technology News for 2004

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First European speech group unveils new name: Acapela Group
2004/04/27

http://www.acapela-group.com/press/pr_texte.asp?pr=3
Totally focused on voice interface solutions, Acapela Group becomes the one-stop supplier hitherto missing from a somewhat over-orchestrated market. Hence the name.

Microsoft opens German research centre
2004/04/27

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/windows/0,39020396,39153078,00.htm
Microsoft on Monday officially opened a research centre in Aachen, Germany, a move that makes the company eligible to take part in projects funded by the European Commission and by individual European countries.

Vodavone unveils new phone for the blind
2004/04/26

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040426/95/es1aw.html
Vodafone Ireland has launched new 'speaking phone' with pre-loaded software capable of audible display to assist the visually impaired.

BBN Technologies' Avoke named best Speech Technology at SpeechTEK
2004/04/26

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040426/nem015_1.html
BBN Technologies announced that its Avoke(TM) suite of call center technologies and services has been awarded "Best New Speech Technology" at SpeechTEK.

W3C completes framework for the Semantic Web
2004/04/24

http://www.theregister.com/2004/04/24/w3c_semantic_web_framework/
The World Wide Web Consortium has announced final approval of two key technologies for the Semantic Web. These are the revised Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL).

Autonomy to power Olympic surveillance
2004/04/23

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,39020336,39152827,00.htm
Technology that was originally developed to help companies to organise and access information on their IT systems will play a role in attempting to prevent terrorist attacks on the Olympic Games this summer.

Google Acquires Applied Semantics
2004/04/23

http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/applied.html
Google, today announced that it acquired Applied Semantics, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based producer of software applications for the online advertising, domain name and enterprise information management markets.

Philips strenghtens French and Benelux speech recognition business
2004/04/22

http://www.speechrecognition.philips.com/index.php?id=5&full=945
Royal Philips Electronics announced that it has appointed Patrick Allongue as Regional Director France & Benelux for its speech recognition software SpeechMagic.

Smith to receive $1.1 million grant to support medical ontology institute
2004/04/22

http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol35/vol35n31/articles/SmithGrant.htm(...)
Barry Smith has received a $1,124,000 grant from the Volkswagen Foundation to continue support of the Buffalo-Leipzig Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (INFOMIS) through 2007.

Credit card activated by voice of its owner
2004/04/22

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Researchers hope that the device, which comes with a built-in voice recognition chip and microphone, will became an important weapon in the battle against credit card fraud.

New voice information portal to deliver real-time traffic information via phone
2004/04/20

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Apr/1033315.htm
Globis Data Inc. announced today the signing of an exclusive partnering agreement that will allow real-time traffic information to be available to drivers via the telephone.

Speech recognition and NLP ready for prime time
2004/04/17

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001905595_pt(...)
Personal Technology asked Ed Lazowska, holder of the University of Washington Bill & Melinda Gates chair in computer science and engineering, to glimpse into the coming 10 years. Here are his thoughts

Amazon to unveil search engine plans
2004/04/15

http://www.weboptimiser.com/search_engine_marketing_news/2417661.html
The new engine, created by Amazon subsidiary A9, integrates Google search results with other technologies that remember individual search histories and connect people to information about books for sale on the Amazon website.

Researchers develop image-based search engine
2004/04/14

http://www.weboptimiser.com/search_engine_marketing_news/2411470.html
Experts from Purdue University Research and Education for Information Systems in Engineering (PRECISE) will unveil the project at a conference in Switzerland this week.

Microsoft Research - The company in 10 years
2004/04/13

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/TechNews/Michetti/2004/04/13/419458.html
Still, Microsoft is a software company and its emphasis will be strong on new, easier and better ways for programmers and developers to work.