Agile and robust human language technologies for defence – Participation to a technological challenge
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Programme Name
Programme Description
The European Defence Fund (EDF) is the Commission’s initiative to support collaborative defence research and development, and to foster an innovative and competitive defence industrial base.
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Summary
The overarching goal of the call is to create a European library of generic and adaptive human language technology components that offer high performances for several defence applications. In particular, the technologies should be robust to noise and communication quality, cover a wide range of language and dialects including under-resourced ones, manage specific vocabulary, and offer more robust processing of high-level semantic information.
Detailed Call Description
The proposals should address technological solutions to process linguistic information in its different forms, i.e. spoken and written (handwriting, printed documents or typed text), in order to recognise, understand and translate it. These solutions should be evaluated in the framework of the technological challenge organised under this call topic. The proposals should in particular address the issue of user-driven system adaptation, i.e. the ability of systems to learn from user supervision without intervention from developers and without regression in terms of performances. Technologies should be integrated into demonstrators with user-friendly interfaces and be easy to integrate into other defence systems.
With the digitalisation of the battlefield, which leads to more and more complex user interfaces and to ever-increasing volumes of language data to process, language technologies such as multilingual written or spoken interaction, translation, and information retrieval are needed in an increasing number of defence systems, especially for C4ISR and joint multinational and/or peacekeeping operations.
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Thematic Categories
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Justice - Security
- Other Thematic Category
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Applications will only be considered eligible if their content corresponds wholly (or at least in part) to the topic description for which it is submitted.
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries (‘EDF associated countries’, see list of participating countries)
- have their executive management structure established in eligible countries
- must not be subject to control by a non-associated third country or nonassociated third-country entity (unless they can provide guarantees – see Annex 2 – approved by the Member State or EDF associated country where they are established)
Consortium composition – Proposals must be submitted by minimum 3 independent applicants (beneficiaries;
not affiliated entities) from 3 different eligible countries.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Defense
172-174 Strovolos Avenue, 2048 Strovolos, Nicosia,
website: https://mod.gov.cy/
Telephone: 22 807500
Email: defence@mod.gov.cy
Department of Research and Innovation
Phones: 22 807755, 22 807754
Email: research.innovation@mod.gov.cy
EU Contact Point
European Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS): https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/defence-industry-and-space_en
For help related to this call, please contact: DEFIS-EDF-PROPOSALS@ec.europa.eu