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SUMMA Jetski

Multilingual Search on Live Feeds

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Project Lead and Developers

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SUMMA

Scalable Understanding of Multilingual Media

  • Funded by the EU Consortium
  • Use bleeding edge tech:
    • Natural Language Processing
    • Contextualisation
  • Support open-source projects and journalists

http://summa-project.eu/

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9 Project Partners

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NLP Technologies

Media Processing

Machine Translation

Automatic Speech Recognition

Punctuation

Language detection

Relationship Extraction

Named-Entity Recognition

Deep semantic tagging

Knowledge base building

Fact checking

Sentiment Analysis

Summarisation

Clustering

Topic detection

QA

Language Understanding

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Transcription with Arabic ASR

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Translation with Arabic MT

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Storyline Clustering: US Open

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Multilingual (Spanish) Storyline Clustering

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Named-Entity Recognition: Iraq

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What can the BBC do

with these technologies?

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SUMMA Jetski

Enable journalists to search and discover content

from multiple live broadcast sources,

by searching in vernacular transcripts.

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Demo! The video playback only works from within corporate proxy…

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With working video…

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Learnings

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Learnings

  • User feedback

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People have said...

“Very likely to use in production”

“Would save 30 minutes to an hour every day”

“Would save time when compiling reaction pieces”

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Learnings

  • User feedback
  • Bottle-necks & Scalability

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Architecture

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Learnings

  • User feedback
  • Bottle-necks & Scalability
  • SUMMA Platform & SUMMA Technology limitations

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SUMMA ASR

Google Translate

"Russia will stop raping NASA astronauts on the ISS"

"Russia stops shipping American astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS)"

🙀!?

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Learnings

  • User feedback
  • Bottle-necks & Scalability
  • SUMMA Platform & SUMMA Technology limitations
  • Upstream

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SUMMA #newsHACK

Editorial Tools for Global News

Bonn, Germany

9-10 October 2018