Information Research and Development Division iTech

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Research and Development Division (iTech)

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• virach_at_nectec.or.th
• 27 December 2000

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Milestone
Linguistics and Knowledge Science Laboratory
(LINKS) 1992
Software Laboratory (SWL)
Software and Language Engineering Laboratory
(SLL) 1997
Information Research and Development Laboratory
(iTech) 2000
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IT Market in Thailand
Source ATCI2542
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Software Type
Source ATCI2542
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Knowledge Information Data
Data
Knowledge
Knowledge
Information
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Knowledge Information Data
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iTech
Program
Sub-program
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I1 Scope

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I1 Achievement

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• C Library ????????????????????? double-array
  trie
• C Framework ?????????????? three-tied web
  application ??? XML
• ??????????? web/CD-ROM ?????????????????? XML
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  Postscript)
• ????? NECTEC18 (Bitmap)

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I1 Achievement

• Linux TLE 3.0 (RedHat 6.2 Helix GNOME 1.2
  TLE)
• Thai Locale for GNU C Library
• Thai support for GNU Emacs
• Thai LATEX (Babel-based)
• swath (Smart Word Analysis for THai)
• LEXiTRON klexitron (Kaiwal)
• TIS620-0/1/2 convention for Thai X fonts
  (experimental)
• Thai shaping in X servers (experimental)

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I1 Ongoing Projects (2001)

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  Source)
• Linux TLE 4.0
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• Project Hosting
• Thai Library
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I1 Target in 5 years

• Thai language common library
• Font library
• OpenSource Software for users and developers
• Standardization

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I2 Scope
gt Standard annotated speech corpus
gt For synthesis and recognition
gt Speech synthesis
gt Grapheme-to-Phoneme
gt Prosody analysis
gt Speaker identification
gt Speaker verification
gt Voice command
gt Continuous speech recognition
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I2 Achievement

• Thai Text-to-Speech Synthesis
• Thai text-to-speech synthesis module V1.0
• Thai text-to-speech synthesis module V2.0
• Speaker Recognition in Thai
• Prototype of text-dependent speaker
  identification system

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I2 Ongoing Projects (2001)

• Thai speech corpus for synthesis and recognition
• Thai text-to-speech synthesis phase II
• Speaker identification on phone

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I2 Target in 5 years

• Speech corpus
• 400 prosodic and phonetically balanced sentences
  for speech synthesis
• Phonetically balanced sentences and 5K
  vocabularies coverage sentences for speech
  recognition
• Text-to-speech
• Corpus-based probabilistic prosody generation
• Speaker recognition
• Text-dependent speaker verification
• Speech recognition
• Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition

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I3 Scope

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• ?????????? (Transformation)
• ?????????????? (Restoration/Enhancement)
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• ????????????? (Segmentation)
• ????????????????????????????????? (Recognition/
  Identification)
• ????????????????? (Representation/Description)
• ????????????????????? (Simulation)

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I3 Achievement

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I3 Ongoing Projects (2001)

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  ??????????? ??????? 2 (Thai Optical Character
  Recognition Thai OCR Phase II)
• ??????????????????????????????? (Document Image
  Analysis)
• ???????????????????????????????????????? (Thai
  Online Handwritten Character Recognition)

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I3 Target in 5 years

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I4 Scope

• RD on algorithm and software for text processing
• Text corpus
• Search engine
• Machine translation
• Information retrieval/extraction
• Text summarization
• Lexicon/thesaurus

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I4 Achievement

• ParSitE-T cross language web navigation
• UNLThai decoder for UNL, language-independent
  database
• LEXiTRONCorpus-based Thai-English electronic
  dictionary
• EZKeyThai-English input supporting system
  (patent)
• ORCHIDThai POS tagged corpus

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I4 Ongoing Projects (2001)

• ParSit
• UNL
• Search engine for Thai
• LEXiTRON II
• Text corpus

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I4 Target in 5 years

• ParSit (E-T/T-E)
• UNL language center
• LEXiTRON very large Corpus-based dictionary
• Search engine for Thai in very large database

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I5 Scope

• RD on Managing Very Large-Scaled Information on
  the Internet
• RD on Knowledge, Information and Data Management
• RD on Annotated Systems XML, Annotated Content
  and Intelligent Content
• RD on Database and Software for Bioinformatics

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I5 Two Aspects in I3

• Knowledge, Information and Data(KID) Structural
  Aspect
• KID Representation Standardization
• KID Integration
• Building Intelligent Databases (e.g.,
  Bioinformatics, Medical Database)
• KID Functional Aspect
• Large-Scaled KID Management
• Heterogeneous Database Integration
• Intelligent Application

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I5 Research on KID Structure

• Basic Research
• XML and Its Standardization
• Semantic Annotation - UNL and MMA
• Indexing Methods
• Data Compression
• User Model
• Application Research
• KID Management Tools
• Annotation Tools
• KID Visualization and Pattern Presentation

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I5 Research on KID Function

• Basic Research
• Statistical, AI and NLP Methods
• Querying System
• Inference Mechanism (such as on XML)
• Pattern Visualization
• Application Research
• Information Retrieval and Extraction Systems
• Data and Text Mining Systems
• Decision Support Systems

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I5 Integration Figure in I3
Record
Record
Web Unstructured Data (Textual Database) (Multimed
ia Database)
Structured Data (Relational Database)
(Object-Oriented Database)
Record
Transformation Extraction
Data Mining Information Retrieval Information
Extraction Knowledge Discovery Decision Support
Structured Data (Annotated Data) e.g. XML