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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The SUMMA video is ready and released ! It explains in a nutshell how the SUMMA platform can help professionals working in the journalistic area benefit from the system using it for searching for trending topics in any language available in the platform (currently 9, but it can be expanded to most languages). It shows the…
The Deutsche Welle Innovation Team was invited to speak at the Berlin Free University for a group of mostly academic researchers focusing on film studies and technologies on 7 November. The theme of the 2-day AdA workshop was “Corpus Analysis of Time-Based Arts & Media”. The focus was enriching large data repositories through AV analysis.…
We are entering the final stages of the SUMMA project, a highly promising H2020 EU-funded project which aims to provide media monitoring capabilities for large scale, multimedia and multilingual data. To demonstrate the results of this 3-year project and the SUMMA media monitoring platform, we are organising a third and final user day, presenting the…
Upcoming SUMMA hack on language technologies on 9-10 October in Bonn. We will be addressing how cutting-edge language processing technology could transform (y)our newsroom. We have room for some more participants. To ensure a place, please register asap here
Ulrich Germann from the University of Edinburgh and Peggy van der Kreeft from Deutsche Welle will present the SUMMA project at the KDD 2018 conference in London, the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. It will feature in the KDD Project Showcase Track, focusing on innovative projects, bringing together researchers in machine learning…
SUMMA project is organising user testing workshops in Deutsche Welle Bonn and Berlin. There is an immense interest in the tool from various departments including various language sections, social media, distribution and TV. Most journalists think that the platform is useful for them. They can stay informed about the stories published by other language departments. Especially…
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…
