UMD Part of Multi-Institutional Team Awarded $14.4M to Develop Innovative Language Technologies

By UMD Right Now Staff | UMD Right Now

"COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The University of Maryland (UMD) is part of multi-institutional team tasked with building a powerful set of language technologies that can unlock information that has previously been unsearchable, and ultimately unfindable.

"The four-year project, funded by a $14.4M grant from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), is expected to produce a language processing system that allows a user to type in a query in English and have information returned in English—even if the content is only available in a lesser-known language like Croatian."

Read the full announcement in UMD Right Now

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