Current Projects
CEMI: Center for large-scale multi-modal data interpretation
The project aims at exploiting large collections of unlabeled multi-modal data, mainly video footage, to further state-of-the-art in video, audio and natural language understanding, interpretation, annotation and retrieval by combining unsupervised and semi-supervised learning.
- Funding: Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic
- Program: Excellence in Basic Research
- Code: GAP103/12/G084
- Project Coordinator: Jiří Matas
- Consortium: 4 Institutions
- Budget: 14 Million CZK
- Duration: 7 Years, Jan 2012 - Dec 2019
- Webpage: NA
Past Projects
KConnect - Khresmoi Multilingual Medical Text Analysis, Search and Machine Translation Connected in a Thriving Data-Value Chain
KConnect aimed to create a medical text Data-Value Chain with a critical mass of participating companies using cutting-edge commercial cloud-based services for multilingual Semantic Annotation, Semantic Search and Machine Translation of Electronic Health Records and medical publications.
- Funding: European Commission, EU
- Program: H2020-ICT, Collaborative project
- Code: 644753
- Project Coordinator: Allan Hanbury
- Consortium: 10 institutions, 6 countries
- Budget: 4 Million EUR
- Duration: 2.5 Years, Feb 2015 - Jul 2017
- Webpage: www.kconnect.eu
Khresmoi: Medical information analysis and retrieval
The project aims to develop a multi-lingual multi-modal search and access system for biomedical information and documents.
- Funding: European Commission, EU
- Program: FP7-ICT, Collaborative project
- Code: 257528
- Project Coordinator: Henning Müller
- Consortium: 12 institutions, 9 countries
- Budget: 10 Million EUR
- Duration: 4 Years, Sep 2010 - Aug 2014
- Webpage: www.khresmoi.eu
Panacea: Platform for automatic, normalized acquisition of language resources for human language technologies
The objective of PANACEA is to build a factory of LRs that progressively automates the stages involved in the acquisition, production, updaging and maintenance of language resources required by machine translation systems, among other language technology applications and in the time required.
- Funding: European Commission, EU
- Program: FP7-ICT, Strep
- Code: 248064
- Project Coordinator: Nuría Bel
- Consortium: 7 institutions, 7 countries
- Budget: 3.4 Million EUR
- Duration: 3 Years, Jan 2010 - Dec 2012
- Webpage: www.panacea-lr.eu
T4ME: Technologies for the multilingual European information society
META-NET/T4ME is a Network of Excellence dedicated to fostering the technological foundations of a multilingual European information society.
- Funding: European Commission, EU
- Program: FP7-ICT, Network of Excellence
- Code: 249119
- Project Coordinator: Hans Uszkoreit
- Consortium: 10 institutions, 10 countries
- Budget: 7.6 Million EUR
- Duration: 3 Years, Feb 2010 - Jan 2013
- Webpage: www.meta-net.eu/projects/t4me/
Modern methods, structures, and systems of computer science
Basic research in computer science, including theoretical computer science, application of discrete methods nad structures, development and implementation of distributed information systems, and other areas.
- Funding: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic
- Program: Výzkumný záměr
- Code: MSM0021620838
- Project Coordinator: Jan Kratochvíl
- Consortium: 1 Institution
- Budget: 280 Million CZK
- Duration: 6 Years, Jan 2005 - Dec 2011
Malach: Multilingual access to large spoken archives
The principal goal of MALACH is to develop methods for improved access to large multilingual spoken archives by capitalizing on the unique characteristics (unconstrained natural speech) of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation's multimedia digital archive of oral histories.
- Funding: National Science Foundation, USA
- Program: NSF ITR
- Code: 0122466
- Project Investigator: Sam Gustman
- Consortium: 7 institutions, 2 countries
- Budget: 7.5 Million USD
- Duration: 5 Years, 2002 - 2006
- Webpage: malach.umiacs.umd.edu