International Business Machines Corporation, Yorktown Heights, New York, is being awarded a $6,576,024 cost contract for the Broad Operational Language Technology Program. The program has a goal of creating technology capable of translating multiple foreign languages in all genres, retrieving information from the translated material, and enabling bilingual communication via speech or text. Specifically, this contractor will conduct work for activity A, “Genre-Independent Translation and Information Retrieval System,” and activity C, “Human-Human Dialogue System.” The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is the contracting activity.
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