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FBO DAILY ISSUE OF APRIL 17, 2003 FBO #0503
SOURCES SOUGHT

D -- Development of unique systems software for language translation for Japanese, Korean and Arabic.

Notice Date

4/15/2003
 

Notice Type

Sources Sought
 

Contracting Office

ACA, Fort Lewis, Directorate of Contracting, Building 2015, Box 339500, Fort Lewis, WA 98433-9500
 

ZIP Code

98433-9500
 

Solicitation Number

DABJ25-03-R-XXXX
 

Archive Date

6/29/2003
 

Point of Contact

Steve Dawson, 253-966-3500
 

E-Mail Address

Email your questions to ACA, Fort Lewis
(dawsons@lewis.army.mil)
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

NA Machines are currently unable to fully nderstand human language. Highly restricted vocabularies of individual words may be recognized in a specific context, but overall the words are not understood in the way humans do. New methods are needed to resolve se mantic, syntactic, and even pragmatic ambiguities. Conventional approaches focusing on keywords, grammar rules, and simple probabilistic modeling appear to have reached their limits. Develop and demonstrate novel technologies, usable by anyone with or with out specialized linguistic knowledge, to automate the understanding of text and spontaneous conversation by mapping equivalencies in usage of phrases instead of focusing on the meaning of individual words. The approach is based on statistical modeling of h uman conversations. The goal is to construct a network of equivalent phrases of conversational English using algorithmic procedures that automatically extract a significant number of phrases from text and organize them into semantically and syntactically e quivalent classes. The same step will be taken for either Arabic, Japanese and Korean. A mapping between the two languages will be used to produce valid translations. The overall challenge is to build and validate a viable system despite the very large sca le of the challenge posed by natural usages, and to verify the heuristics for measuring the closeness between phrase meanings. If successfully developed and deployed, the new technology would provide the core language engine for a variety of applications i n addition to language translation, such as speech recognition and data mining. Speech interfaces could be built quickly and inexpensively, companies could translate product information easily, and customer service costs could be reduced through the use of automatic question-answering systems.
 

Place of Performance

Address: ACA, Fort Lewis Directorate of Contracting, Building 2015, Box 339500 Fort Lewis WA

Zip Code: 98433-9500

Country: US
 

Record

SN00304157-W 20030417/030415213542 (fbodaily.com)
 

Source

FedBizOpps.gov Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)

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