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Douglas Oard, associate professor in the College of Information
Studies, together with Drs. Doermann, Dorr, and Philip Resnik,
associate professor of linguistics, as well as researchers at Johns
Hopkins University and IBM, received $7.5 million from the NSF spread
over five years to develop multilingual access to large spoken
archives (the MALACH project). The researchers are working on the
technology and information breakthroughs necessary to dramatically
improve access to large multilingual collections of recorded speech.
They work closely with the Shoah Visual History Foundation, presently
the world's largest coherent archive of videotaped oral histories.
The archive contains 116,000 hours of digitized interviews in 32
languages from 52,000 survivors, liberators, rescuers and witnesses of
the Nazi Holocaust. Click here for more information. |
