1. 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

2. Deutsche Welle World Broadcaster
30 languages E G S A
Radio, Online
TV, Radio, Online

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

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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Thank you !
Questions?

11. Languages covered by DW