Language Technology News for 2005

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Philips and Kallideas Group partner for SpeechMagic integration in Italy
2005/06/09

http://www.speechrecognition.philips.com/index.asp?id=505&artid=1160
A ConText is a recognition vocabulary, which incorporates industry and country specific terminology and grammar, ensuring highest recognition accuracy. The agreement enables Philips to expand the usage of SpeechMagic in Italian healthcare beyond radiology, which will further strengthen the company’s leading position in the medical speech recognition market.

Nortel and BCE Elix sign partnership agreement
2005/06/08

http://www.bceelix.com/press.asp?lng=1&id=1711&Archive=n
With this agreement, BCE Elix becomes a certified vendor to provide Professional Services, including consultation, implementation, training, and support, to Nortel and its authorized distributors in North America.

Semantic Web Interest Grows
2005/06/08

http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/microscope/document.2005-06-16.8341(...)
Life science researchers are taking a closer look at the potential benefits of adopting Semantic Web technology to deal with their data handling and analysis challenges. Along similar lines, Eric Neumann, global head of knowledge management at Sanofi-Aventis spoke about the use of Semantic Web technology in drug discovery and development.

Test somebodies mother tongue by asking to imitate an animals' voice
2005/06/07

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/07/arts/07boxe.html?ex=1275796800&en=63(...)
It turns out that British, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Polish, Arab, Greek, Italian, Dutch and Danish children all agree that a duck more or less quacks. But the Japanese ducks "da-da-da," and the South Korean says "day-dub."

Active Voice and ScanSoft to Deliver New Speech-Enabled Automated Attendant System
2005/06/07

http://www.scansoft.com/news/pressreleases/20050607_activevoice.asp
Quick, Easy Voice Access to Company Directory Information Can Help Organizations Improve Productivity and Reduce Costs...

CACI and Language Weaver team to support national defense efforts
2005/06/06

http://www.languageweaver.com/article_93.php
Built on HighView ®, CACI’s robust commercial document and workflow management technology, the DOCEX (Document Exploitation) Suite combines document capture, optical character recognition, indexing techniques and machine translation, to improve the government’s ability to organize, translate, analyze and triage information that originates in foreign languages.

Blog Mining Gets Real
2005/06/03

http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/P4TIh3NW6hTSjC/Blog-Mining-Gets-Real.xht(...)
Like unstructured content captured on Web forms that never really gets used, blogs' explosive growth is generating raw data sets that your company really can't afford to ignore.

Xbox 360 to Feature Fonix Voice Technology
2005/05/31

http://www.fonix.com/page.cfm?name=news&id=1546
Fonix and Microsoft deliver voice recognition on the next-generation Xbox.

A Phone you can talk to
2005/05/30

http://www.voicesignal.com/news/articles/2005-05-16.html
The Samsung SGH-P207 VGA camera phone, offered by Cingular for $80 with a service contract, is the first phone to employ VoiceMode speech-to-text technology developed by VoiceSignal Technologies of Massachusetts. Voice recognition in mobile phones is not new, of course. But the P207 goes a step beyond that - it also takes dictation, allowing the user to speak a message that can then be sent as e-mail or a Short Message Service (SMS) text note.

TAP project: Use Semantic Web technology to enhance Search
2005/05/30

http://sp08.stanford.edu/
Search on TAP is based on the TAP project, originally by Rob McCool and R.V. Guha. Major contributors to the Search on TAP tool include Richard Fikes and Andrew J. Cowell. This work is funded by a grant from ARDA under the NIMD program.

Software for the identification of scientific trends
2005/05/30

http://www.drugresearcher.com/news/news-ng.asp?n=60313-new-software-id(...)
Chemical Abstracts Service and FIZ Karlsruhe have launched new software that is set to provide insights into trends and patterns in scientific and patent information, which is achievable through greater value from search results.

The rise of the plagiosphere; no more illusion about the originality of our words
2005/05/30

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/issue/megascope.asp?trk(...)
The plagiosphere is arising from three movements: Web indexing, text matching, and paraphrase detection. The concept of the biosphere exposed our environmental fragility; the emergence of the plagiosphere perhaps represents our textual impasse. Copernicus may have deprived us of our centrality in the cosmos, and Darwin of our uniqueness in the biosphere, but at least they left us the illusion of the originality of our words. Soon that, too, will be gone.

Tagging is it - voluntarily classifying and categorizing thousands of pieces of content each day
2005/05/30

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/06/issue/forward_tagging.a(...)
... It's called tagging, and it's going on at a handful of free websites --Delicious, Flickr, Furl, and Rojo, among others--where members are voluntarily classifying and categorizing thousands of pieces of content each day. The phenomenon is growing fast: Delicious alone had 90,000 total users by April 2005, up from 30,000 the previous December.

Despite L&H's fall, technology was real
2005/05/29

http://www.blackenterprise.com/yb/ybopen.asp?section=ybbf&story_id=723(...)
Although the company may have looked like a fake to the public by the time it was liquidated, Lernout & Hauspie did have genuine technology, many speech-recognition specialists say. "It certainly wasn't like these companies that had hundreds of millions of dollars of venture capital poured in and then had nothing to show for it but some good office furniture," said John Oberteuffer, who consulted for Lernout & Hauspie and is vice president for technology at Fonix, a Utah-based speech technology company.

Google Print Beta goes live.
2005/05/27

http://print.google.com/
Google Print Beta goes live attempt to achieve their goal of organizing the world's information on the Internet. Problems may exist however with copyright and culture wars abroad and whatever happened to Gutenberg?