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Project no. 296371

SAVAS

‘Sharing AudioVisual language resources for Automatic Subtitling’

Collaborative Project Information and Communication Technologies

Deliverable: D6.3

Dissemination material

Due date of deliverable: 30 04 2014 Actual submission date: 30 04 2014 Start date of project: 01/05/2012 Duration: 24 Months Contact person responsible for this deliverable: Carlo Aliprandi Organisation name responsible for this deliverable: SYNTHEMA

Revision [1.0]

Project co-funded by European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme

Dissemination level

PU Public

PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services)

RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services)

CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services) X

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DOCUMENT INFO

Author

Author Company E-mail

Carlo Aliprandi SYNTHEMA carlo.aliprandi@synthema.it

Arantza del Pozo VICOMTECH adelpozo@vicomtech.org

Document Control

Document version #

Date Change

V0.1 15/04/2014 Initial draft and contribution distribution

V1.0 30/04/2014 Added dissemination activities, events and conferences.

Document Data

Point of Contact Name: Carlo Aliprandi Partner: SYNTHEMA Address: Via Malasoma 24 - Pisa Phone: +39 050 9656411 Fax: +39 050 9656421 E-mail: carlo.aliprandi@synthema.it

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................. 4

2 DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES PERFORMED ................................................. 4

2.1 The SAVAS website ................................................................................ 4

2.2 The SAVAS META-SHARE Repository .................................................. 6

2.3 The SAVAS End-User Panel .................................................................. 8

2.4 Dissemination material .......................................................................... 9

2.5 Events and conferences ...................................................................... 10

2.5.1 IBC 2013 .......................................................................................... 10

2.5.1.1 The 2nd End-User Panel Workshop ............................................ 10

2.5.2 Media for All 5 ................................................................................... 12

2.5.3 Internet Festival 2013 ....................................................................... 12

2.5.4 NAB 2014 ......................................................................................... 12

2.5.5 The 3rd End-User Panel Workshop .................................................. 13

2.6 Publications .......................................................................................... 14

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1 Introduction

This document describes the dissemination material employed and activities carried out within the project since August 2013 – after deliverable D6.2.2 "Dissemination Plan: Update" was submitted and also presents the activities targeted in the forthcoming months.

2 Dissemination activities performed

This section reports the dissemination activities performed since the previous version of the deliverable.

2.1 The SAVAS website

The first version of the SAVAS website was designed and released in setup in August 2012 (M3), partially revisited and redesigned in January 2013 (M6), improving its content and modifying its layout, in order to increase its visibility using SEO techniques.

Along the project lifetime its contents have been regularly updated, especially in the "News" and in the "Resource Center" sections. The "News" section has been frequently updated with about 20 news, each of which was also emailed to a number of stakeholders that we collected. The "Resource Center" section has also been updated, with a description of the updates to the systems, with project showcases, in the form of sample demo videos of the systems, and with the main scientific and industrial publications.

Now, the new website has a good ranking, and it is better at reaching the SAVAS target audience. As shown in Figure 1, users googling for “subtitling ASR” can easily find the project website as the 2nd and 3rd options, and the SAVAS-related website or publications are 5 of the first 10 results.

Figure 1. SAVAS ranking in a “subtitling ASR” search

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Figure 2 presents screenshots of the old and new SAVAS websites for comparison purposes.

Figure 2. The SAVAS old (top) and new (down) website layouts

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2.2 The SAVAS META-SHARE Repository

The development of the infrastructure to support the SAVAS repository has been carried out, and the final SAVAS META-SHARE node is available at the URL:

http://metashare.synthema.it:8000/

In the end, 25 language resources from those identified in deliverable D3.3.2, “SAVAS legal and licensing agreements: Update” have been collected, meta-annotated and shared after IPR negotiations. They are now at disposal of the R&D and industrial community. Figure 3 presents a table with the final shared resources.

Figure 3. The SAVAS META-SHARE resources

Screenshots of the final SAVAS META-SHARE site are presented in Figure 4. The META-SHARE repository offers, for each shared SAVAS resource:

● search and browsing through metadata;

● visualisation of details and description;

● IPR and license information

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Figure 4: SAVAS META-SHARE node

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2.3 The SAVAS End-User Panel

The SAVAS End-User Panel was successfully set up at the beginning of the project. Current members are:

1. Yota Georgakopoulou and Graham Willis – Deluxe Digital Studios

2. José Luis Arlanzon and Fidel Manrique – Mira lo Que Digo

3. Mercedes de Castro – CESyA

4. Massimo Binetti, Cristina Croce – Write System

5. Andrew Lambourne, John Boulton and John Birch – ScreenSystems

6. Pablo Romero Fresco – Univ. Roehampton

7. Nigel Blackmore – Titelbild

8. Joachim Kotelman – ARD Text

9. Philip Klenk – SWR

10. Francesca Marchionne – onA.I.R.

11. Mika Sokolov – FAB

12. Christophe Lartilleux and Sidonie Bouchet – Blue Elements

13. Manuel Naudin – France TV

14. Nigel Blackwood – Titelbild

15. Mikel Recondo – Ubertiles

16. Philippe Anel – Mediawen

17. Federico Spoletti – Sub-Ti

Throughout the project lifetime, we have organised three SAVAS End-User Panel workshops attended by the end-user panellists listed above, to disseminate and also exploit results:

● 1st End-User Panel Workshop

It was held in November 2012 in Berlin, linked to Languages & The Media 2012. Please, refer to deliverable D6.5 "Workshop 1" for a more detailed description of the workshop.

● 2nd End-User Panel Workshop

It was held in September 2013 in Amsterdam, linked to IBC 2013. More details are presented in Section 2.5.1.1 and deliverable D6.7 “Workshop 2”.

● 3rd End-User Panel Workshop

It was held in April 2014 in Paris. More details are presented in Section 2.5.5 and deliverable D6.8 “Workshop 3”.

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2.4 Dissemination material

The dissemination material employed within the SAVAS project includes a flyer (of which two versions have been designed) and a poster, created for general-purpose dissemination. Both flyer and poster have been made available as downloads from the SAVAS website.

In addition, a shell scheme with the project identity has also been designed and employed as a basis for decorating the SAVAS stands in the different exhibitions and fairs we have attended.

Figure 5: SAVAS Flyer, ver. 2.0

Figure 6: SAVAS Poster

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Figure 7: SAVAS Shell scheme

2.5 Events and conferences

Table 1 summarizes the presentations made by the SAVAS partners at different exhibitions, conferences and workshops.

In the following sections we highlight the results of the main events attended by the partners since August 2013 – after deliverable D6.2.2 "Dissemination Plan: Update" was submitted.

2.5.1 IBC 2013

After the success of the previous year, where the SAVAS booth and demo session at IBC 2012 managed to attract a large amount of stakeholders interested in the SAVAS applications, SYNTHEMA and VOICEINTERACTION organised the SAVAS participation at IBC 2013, again with an exhibition booth and a presentation.

The SAVAS booth was hosted in the stand 181 in Hall 14 at IBC's Connected World. The booth was served by SAVAS researchers from VOICEINTERACTION, SYNTHEMA and VICOMTECH, who gave talks and presentations about the project and first-hand demonstrations of all the product innovations and more.

As in the previous edition, many interested stakeholders visited the booth and a considerable number of contacts with potential future customers was established.

2.5.1.1 The 2nd End-User Panel Workshop

The 2nd End-User Workshop was linked to the IBC2013 Exhibition in Amsterdam. Like the 1st workshop, it was successful and useful. We collected 16 people from 12 different parties, with about 70% of confirmed participants.

An overview of the project and beta versions of the S.Live!, S.Scribe! and S.Respeak! applications were presented. In addition, panellists provided feedback, recommendations and their interest in the different applications. The last part of the workshop was devoted to face-to-face meetings where specific needs and potential collaborations for integration, evaluation and exploitation were discussed.

For a more detailed description of the workshop and of its main outcomes, please refer to deliverable D6.6 "Workshop 2".

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EVENT ATTENDED

DATE DESCRIPTION Web Site Partners involved

The IBC 2013 Exhibition, Amsterdam RAI Center, September 2013.

13-17 September 2013

IBC is the premier European event for the industry of Broadcasting. It is devoted to professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide. For the second time, SAVAS attended the event with a presentation and booth. The 2nd End-User Panel was also hosted there.

http://www.ibc.org Synthema, Voiceinteraction, Vicomtech

Media for All 5, Dubrovnik, September 2013

25-27 September 2013

Media for All brings together professionals, scholars, practitioners and other interested parties to explore audiovisual translation in theory and practice every two years.

SAVAS gave two presentations.

http://mediaforall5.dhap.hr/

Swisstxt

Internet Festival 2013, Pisa, October 2013.

10-13 October 2013

The Festival explored how new ICT technologies are capable of creating a landscape for the development and growth of ideas, inventions, opportunities, products, services and start-ups.

SAVAS gave a presentation and had a stand.

http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/internet-festival-2013-edition/

Synthema

The NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference 2014, Las Vegas, US, April 2014.

5-10 April 2014

This six-day conference featured technical papers addressing the latest opportunities and challenges that face broadcast engineering professionals around the world. Carlo Aliprandi, present the paper: "Automatic Live Subtitling: state of the art, expectations and current trends"

http://www.nabshow.com/

Synthema, Voiceinteraction

LREC 2014, the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, May 2014, Reykjavik

22-25 May 2014

LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human Language Technologies (HLT). The aim of LREC is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and exchange information regarding LRs and their evaluation methodologies and tools. Arantza Del pozo will present the paper: “SAVAS: Collecting, Annotating and Sharing Audiovisual Language Resources for Automatic Subtitling"

http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/

Vicomtech, Synthema and Voiceinteraction

Table 1. Attended conferences and events

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Figure 8. SAVAS 2nd EUP Workshop at IBC2013

2.5.2 Media for All 5

The SAVAS team attended the 4th International Media for All Conference in Dubrovnik on September 26th and 27th 2013.

Gion Linder held the presentation "Time has come to consider the possibilities of automatic subtitles", where he talked about opportunities and risks of automatic subtitling with a special focus on the SAVAS project. In addition, Juan Martinez presented the NERstar tool, which enables to evaluate the quality of live subtitles, including automatic subtitles.

Both presentations were well received by the audience.

2.5.3 Internet Festival 2013 How long will it take computers to reach the language age? Understanding language is one of the most fascinating challenges to science, because it represents the keystone for real smart systems. SAVAS addresses this question contributing to the progress of language technologies and participated at the Internet Festival 2013 in Pisa, where Carlo Aliprandi gave a speech within the Industrial Session of the Workshop entitled "The language age" on 12 October 2013, presenting the state of the art of speech transcription and semantic analysis. Demos of the SAVAS applications were also provided at the SAVAS stand.

2.5.4 NAB 2014

A SAVAS contribution was accepted and presented at the NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference, that was held in April 2014 in Las Vegas.

This six-day conference featured technical papers addressing the latest opportunities and challenges that face broadcast engineering professionals around the world.

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Carlo Aliprandi, gave the presentation "Automatic Live Subtitling: state of the art, expectations and current trends".

Figure 9. SAVAS presentation at NAB 2014

2.5.5 The 3rd End-User Panel Workshop

The 3rd End-User Workshop was held on April 29, 2014 in Paris.

The main goal of this last workshop was to present final results and preliminary evaluations of the performance of the systems. We collected 10 people from 7 different parties.

A detailed report of the workshop outcomes can be found in deliverable D6.8 "Workshop 3".

Figure 10. SAVAS 3rd EUP Workshop in Paris

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2.6 Publications

The following list contains the papers published so far within the framework of the SAVAS project:

J. Miranda, J.P. Neto, A.W. Black “Improved punctuation recovery through

combination of multiple speech streams”, Automatic Speech Recognition

and Understanding Workshop, December 2013, Olomouc

Carlo Aliprandi, Cristina Scudellari, Isabella Gallucci, Nicola Piccinini, Matteo

Raffaelli, Arantza del Pozo, Aitor Álvarez, Haritz Arzelus, Renato Cassaca,

Tiago Luis, Joao Neto, Carlos Mendes, Sérgio Paulo, Marcio Viveiros,

"Automatic Live Subtitling: state of the art, expectations and current trends",

NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference, April 5-10 2014, Las Vegas

Arantza del Pozo, Carlo Aliprandi, Aitor Álvarez, Carlos Mendes, Joao Neto,

Sérgio Paulo, Nicola Piccinini, Matteo Raffaelli, “SAVAS: Collecting,

Annotating and Sharing Audiovisual Language Resources for Automatic

Subtitling", Proceedings of the International Conference on Language

Resources and Evaluation, May 2014, Reykjavik

Some dissemination activities have been planned and are forecasted after the end of the project. The main ones are as follows:

o The following paper has been submitted to Interspeech 2014

Carlos Mendes, Tiago Luís, Sérgio Paulo, Renato Cassaca, Márcio Viveiros, João Neto, Aitor Álvarez, Arantza del Pozo, Nicola Piccinini, Isabella Gallucci, Matteo Raffaelli and Carlo Aliprandi, “Development of Live Subtitling Systems for several European languages”, Interspeech 2014

o 2 SAVAS contributions have been submitted (C. Aliprandi and G. Linder) to the IBC 2014 Conference, for a session on Access Services.

o SAVAS has been invited to participate at the forthcoming EBU Workshop on Access Services to be held in Berlin, 17th September 2014.