Challenges and Needs for Language Technologies for International Broadcasters Peggy van der Kreeft Deutsche Welle Workshop on multilingual data value chains in the Digital Single Market 16 January 2015 Brussels

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Challenges platforms production costs h many editorial departments language variety Overlap of content regional focus formats content overlap target audience reach

Technology Requirements MT AUTOMATION TRANSCRIPTS CROSSLINGUAL SEARCHING SUBTITLING POPE METADATA EXTRACTION SUMMARISATION => cost-effective cross-lingual multi-platform journalistic production

Some solutions from research projects CoSyne Project Multilingual Content Synchronisation with Wikis Automated translation Alignment at sentence and document level Identify overlapping and unique information across languages

AXES Project Access to Audiovisual Archives Language-independent visual search using Überclassifiers

EUMSSI Project Event Understanding through Multimodal Social Stream Interpretation gender identification speaker identification sentiment analysis named entity detection STT: different language modules Storytelling using analysis across languages

MULTISENSOR Project Mining and Understanding of multilinguaL contenT for Intelligent Sentiment Enriched coNtext and Social Oriented inteRpretation semantic technologies translation interpretation summarisation mining multilingual datasets context-dependent meaning Automatic summarisation and semantic interpretation of multilingual information

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