1. Scalable Understanding of Multilingual Media
Steve Renals
University of Edinburgh

2. 1 February 2016 – 31 January 2019

3. Motivation – BBC Monitoring
Many journalists each monitoring up to
4 TV channels
several online text sources
30 languages – most important include
Russian
Arabic
Farsi

4. SUMMA Media Monitoring
Scalable and modular platform
ingest live streams of news sources
transcribe multilingual spoken content
translate content
organise news streams into storylines
identify names, places, organisations
extract facts from news reports
summarise and distill content

5. SUMMA Technologies

6. Application areas External Media Monitoring Internal Media Monitoring
identify emerging trends
tracking people in the news
monitoring the evolution of storylines
Internal Media Monitoring
manage multilingual content creation
efficient reuse of content across languages
Data Journalism
use SUMMA platform for data driven journalism

7. SUMMA Platform

8. Today Motivation and vision for SUMMA technologies The SUMMA platform
Key SUMMA technologies
speech recognition
machine translation
content enrichment
fact checking
Lunch and tour of DW
Demos and posters – technical challenges
Panel discussion – how speech and language technologies will impact media industry