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BBN Technologies Corp. reports it has landed $14 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for language translation technology.
The deal extends BBN’s Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE) program into its fourth year out of a possible five. During the project’s first three years, BBN developed technology for the automatic translation of Arabic newswire text and broadcast news into English. Under the latest contract BBN will work to increase the accuracy of the translation of Arabic speech and text.
The GALE project is intended to develop software to transcribe, translate and distill large volumes of speech and text in multiple languages with more than 90 percent accuracy by the end of five years. Cambridge-based BBN is also working on a separate project translating Chinese.
Last month, BBN brought in $29.7 million from the U.S. Air Force to develop a computer system able to read prose and convert it to information understandable by an artificial intelligence. Under the deal, BBN will develop a prototype machine reading system. BBN will be working under DARPA’s machine reading program.
Also in June, BBN landed $11.3 million from DARPA to develop cheaper wireless network technology. BBN will develop and test a hardened, virtual network infrastructure with improved scalability and demonstrate the technology on a MA/COM radio.
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