26/01/2006

A new technology for organising, easily searching and retrieving summarised digital content in different languages is being developed. The project is called REVEAL THIS (Retrieval of Video and Language for The Home user in an Information Society) and is coordinated by the Institute for language and Speech Processing (ILSP) and co-financed by the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development ("Information Society Technologies - IST" Programme).

The goal of the project is to provide European citizens with a tool for managing and organizing digital content, so that they may spend their time utilizing, and not searching for, the content they are interested in. Various groups, other than ILSP, are taking part in this project: research centres SIAL (Speech Artificial Intelligence Language) LABS Technology AG (Austria) and XEROX - The Document Company SAS (France), Universities Katholieke Universiteit Leuven R&D (Belgium) and University of Strathclyde (United Kingdom), as well as television stations BE TV SA (Belgium) and TVEyes UK Ltd (United Kingdom).

The completed REVEAL THIS application will provide users with the ability to save, categorise, semantically index and cross-link multiplatform content (radio, television, internet) in various forms (speech, document, image, video) and in different languages. Moreover, REVEAL THIS will provide services for search, retrieval, summary and translation of content, allowing the user to combine the independent content received from various multimedia and channels based on his/her personal data and interests.

The relevant technologies is presented at the "Crossing Media for Improved Information Access" workshop organised by REVEAL THIS in the context of the international "5th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference" in Genoa (Italy) from 24 to 26 May.

Further information on the project and workshop is available at: http://www.reveal-this.org

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