SUMMA integrates stream-based media processing tools (including speech recognition and machine translation) with deep language understanding capabilities (including named entity relation extraction and semantic parsing), for open-source applications and implemented in use cases at the BBC and Deutsche Welle.
SUMMA is a Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action, running from 1st February 2016 to 31st January 2019.
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Ulrich Germann, Peggy van der Kreeft and Hina Imran of SUMMA participated in the EAMT (European Association for Machine Translation) conference on May 29th, 2018 in Alicante, Spain. EAMT is a conference where researchers, developers and users interested in Machine Translation and translation tools come together to share their findings. Ulrich Germann Presented SUMMA at the…
Peggy van der Kreeft from Deutsche Welle is attending the IRT SubTec1 Symposium on Subtitling Technology in Munich (24-25 May) to check out the latest developments in subtitling and captions. It is organized by the IRT, the Institute for Broadcasting Technology, providing technological support to (public) broadcasters. Speakers from the broadcasting and supporting services, including…
The SUMMA consortium is organising its second user group meeting to show the progress made in the SUMMA media monitoring platform since the first user day held about six months ago. This workshop will demonstrate our media monitoring platform and present some of the challenges to monitor news efficiently cross-lingually and solutions provided by the underlying…
The team representing Deutsche Welle (DW) at the SUMMA Hackathon in London on 21-22 November won the Hack prize for the best journalistic app with their Slack Bot app. Hina Imran, developer, and Olga Kisselmann, Innovation Manager, both from DW Research and Cooperation Projects, worked out an app to run data from the SUMMA platform…
Congratulations to Ahmed Ali, Yifan Zhang and Fahim Dalvi for winning the prize of the “Best Audience Experience” category at the news hack hosted by SUMMA and BBC in London on 21-22 November with their Video News Bot. Their bot aggregates a story and automatically creates a video summary at the end with relevant images, titles…
The first SUMMA hack event took place in London on the 21st and 22nd November, jointly organised by SUMMA, BBC News Labs and BBC Connected Studio. The event was attended by around 50 participants in 11 teams from around Europe, and as far afield as Doha. The theme of the hack was data journalism and the participants…
Follow the livestream of the talk by SUMMA’s Andreas Vlachos at the STOA (Science and Technology Options Assessment) Annual Lecture 2017 meeting of the European Parliament on “Media in the age of Artificial Intelligence” in Brussels on Tuesday 21 November. Andreas, from the University of Sheffield, is part of the panel on “Information in the Age of…
The EBU (European Broadcasting Union) Cloud Intelligence Seminar (CIS) in Geneva on Tuesday 20 and 21 November addressed a range of interesting topics on AI in the cloud, in particular on media production through cloud services. The first day included an overview of the what, how and why of AI for media and the need…
SUMMA was presented to the News Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in Amsterdam on 14 November, bringing news editors and directors from different European public broadcasters together. The meeting was hosted jointly by the EBU and the NPO, the Dutch public broadcaster. Members from all over Europe, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Zwitserland, Germany,…
