I will give an overview of a number of language-related challenges that we're currently working on at BBN. These include speech recognition, information extraction, and machine translation. I'll talk about the DARPA and IARPA programs where we apply this research, and the particular challenges those programs bring to bear on these research areas. I will also give a short demo of our Multi-Media Monitoring System which combines many of these technologies for real-time media analysis.
Dr. Ilana Heintz is a Senior Scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies, and the Deputy Manager of the Analytics and Machine Intelligence business unit. Her research at BBN includes programs regarding entity and relation extraction from unstructured text, natural language processing for cyber security applications, and the application of machine learning to domains as diverse as sonar ship detection, binary malware identification, and unique radio frequency emitter identification. She holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics from The Ohio State University, where she studied language modeling with finite state machines for Arabic speech recognition, and the development of phonetic discrimination in children using self-organizing models.