• Workpackage WP-1

    Project Management

    Objectives:

    • Manage the project to time and budget
    • supervise and to co-ordinate the MULTISENSOR activities internally and in relation to external events
    • monitor and adjust the implementation plan if necessary.

    Responsible Partner: CERTH

    The work is divided into the following tasks:

    • Task 1.1: Project Management and co-ordination
    • Task 1.2: Research quality management
    • Task 1.3: System quality management
    • Task 1.4: Administration and reporting to the Commission

  • Workpackage WP-2

    Multilingual and Multimedia Content Extraction

    Objectives:

    • extract knowledge from multimedia input data
    • present the data in a way that later components can operate on them

    Responsible Partner: Linguatec (LT)

    The work is divided into the following tasks:

    • Task 2.1: Empirical study
    • Task 2.2: Named entity extraction workflows
    • Task 2.3: Concept extraction from text
    • Task 2.4: Concept linking and relations
    • Task 2.5: Audio transcription and analysis
    • Task 2.6: Multimedia concept and event detection
    • Task 2.7: Machine Translation

  • Workpackage WP-3

    User and Context-centric Content Analysis

    Objectives:

    • model and represent contextual, sentiment and online social interaction features
    • deploy linguistic processing at different levels of accuracy and completeness.

    Our modelling approach will be based on disambiguated entities, relations between them, subjective expressions, opinion holders and, relations between pieces of sentiment-rich information. Moreover, the techniques for cross-language information extraction developed in WP2 will support the information propagation analysis of multi-lingual content, as well as other tasks in WP3.

    Responsible Partner: BM-Y!

    The work is divided into the following tasks:

    • Task 3.1: Indicators for media monitoring and internationalisation
    • Task 3.2: Context modelling and representation
    • Task 3.3: Polarity and sentiment extraction
    • Task 3.4: Information propagation and social interaction analysis

  • Workpackage WP-4

    Multidimensional Content Integration and Retrieval

    Objective:

    • achieve a multidimensional integration of content

    In this context we apply topic-based modelling and representation of the content (by classifying it and extracting topic-events), we perform content integration in the semantic dimension by applying ontology alignment techniques and finally we implement a vector-based indexing representation.

    Responsible Partner: CERTH

    The work is divided into the following tasks:

    • Task 4.1: Topic-based modelling
    • Task 4.2: Mapping discovery and validation
    • Task 4.3: Content alignment and integration
    • Task 4.4: Multimodal indexing and retrieval

  • Workpackage WP-5

    Semantic Reasoning and Decision Support

    Objectives:

    • provide the infrastructure which will serve as the storage layer for the (meta)data of the MULTISENSOR platform
    • develop reasoning techniques beyond state of the art allowing for efficient information selection from heterogeneous data pools, e.g. hybrid reasoning, multi-threaded reasoning, temporal reasoning, geo-spatial reasoning
    • produce a decision support mechanism based on the aforementioned reasoning techniques as well as cognitive techniques for context aware graph navigation, such as spreading activation.

    Responsible Partner: Ontotext (ONTO)

    The work is divided into the following tasks:

    • Task 5.1: Knowledge modelling
    • Task 5.2: Semantic representation infrastructure
    • Task 5.3: Hybrid reasoning
    • Task 5.4: Decision support

  • Workpackage WP-6

    Summarisation and Content Delivery

    Objectives:

    • investigate and implement procedures for briefing information in a context aware way considering user interests as well as opinionated information to produce a novel type of summarisation.

    Responsible Partner: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

    The work is divided into the following tasks:

    • Task 6.1: Basic summarisation infrastructure
    • Task 6.2: MULTISENSOR summarisation dataset
    • Task 6.3: Content selection metrics
    • Task 6.4: Content delivery procedures
    • Task 6.5: Concept-based summarisation
    • Task 6.6: Advanced single and multi-document summary delivery system
    • Task 6.7: Summarisation evaluation

  • Workpackage WP-7

    System Development and Integration

    Objectives:

    • plan the roadmap and design the architecture based on user requirements
    • integrate the developed technologies in previous Work Packages (WP2 to 6)
    • design and implement prototype portals for each use case

    The main goal of these portals is to demonstrate the developed technologies and allow the users to evaluate the system and the quality of the results.

    Responsible Partner: everis

    The work is divided into the following tasks:

    • Task 7.1: MULTISENSOR architecture
    • Task 7.2: Crawlers and data channels infrastructure
    • Task 7.3: Technical infrastructure
    • Task 7.4: System development

  • Workpackage WP-8

    Use Cases and Evaluation

    Objectives:

    • define and validate the MULTISENSOR use cases

    It will thus provide the basis for all following research and development activities within the project. Work kicks-off with detailed identification and description of user requirements based on the user scenarios provided in section B1.1.3. This approach grants that the whole project is initiated and executed with a real commercial user demand in mind. Hence, being able to serve this demand will also be the benchmark for subsequent – both technical and usability – evaluation tasks performed by the consortium.

    Responsible Partner: Deutsche Welle (DW)

    The work is divided into the following tasks:

    • Task 8.1: User requirements and content provision
    • Task 8.2: Specification of the two pilot use cases
    • Task 8.3: Research and system quality assurance
    • Task 8.4: Metrics development for theoretical solutions
    • Task 8.5: User validation and prototype evaluation

  • Workpackage WP-9

    Dissemination and Exploitation

    Objectives:

    • contribute to market awareness by disseminating information on the project, its progress and results
    • to ensure the exploitation of the results in academia, industry and especially in SMEs, public administration and end users
    • make the objectives and the scope of the project publicly available
    • coordinate and handle the dissemination of MULTISENSOR towards different recipients
    • create a community of interest, the MULTISENSOR User Group (UG) where relevant stakeholders will be included
    • organise three workshops throughout the project to present research and development results to industry

    Responsible Partner: pressrelations (PR)

    The work is divided into the following tasks:

    • Task 9.1: Dissemination plan, event participation and organisation
    • Task 9.2: Project web presence & promotional material
    • Task 9.3: MULTISENSOR User Group
    • Task 9.4: Exploitation plans
    • Task 9.5: Business models
    • Task 9.6: Standardisation and collaboration with other projects
    • Task 9.7: Development of the Project Showcase