Gerhard Backfried Head of Research

Hanoi, Feb 2012

• SAIL LABS Technology is one of the world’s leading innovators in the field of speech and language technology solutions providing actionable intelligence for the OSINT and media observation community.

Founding Member of EUROSINT (European Open Source Intelligence) Forum

Facts & Figures

• Founded 1999 in Vienna, Austria, Europe

• Privately held (Austrian owned) company • Research and Development in-house • Customers: worldwide coverage

Company facts

Government Market

Ministries of Foreign Affairs

Security Organizations and Agencies

Law Enforcement

Intelligence Organizations and Agencies

OSINT Centers

Markets

Commercial Market

Archive Indexing

Media Monitoring

Reputation Monitoring

Subtitling E-books

Global Reach

• Key Products – Media Mining System (for Audio and Video)

– Text Mining System

– Crisis Room

• Key Features

– Indexing and archiving of data from video, audio and text sources

– Automatic speech recognition (speech-to-text)

– Speaker and gender identification

– Topic and named entity detection, story segmentation

– Toolkits for user adaptation and extension of technologies

Products and Features

• Key Services

– Consulting service and technical workshops

– Research, development and implementation of customized solutions

– New languages developed on request

– Maintenance upgrades and world-wide support

Services

System Architecture

• English

• Arabic

• German

• Spanish

• French

• Italian

• Mandarin

• Hebrew

• Greek

• Norwegian

• Russian

• Polish

• Farsi

• Portuguese

• Romanian

Supported Languages

Process overview

Visualization

Media Mining System

Research Projects

Versatile InfoRmation Toolkit for end-Users oriented Open Sources explOitation

• EU FP7 project

• Framework for collection, processing, analysis and communication of open source information

• Advanced integrated toolkit, developed around an "open" architecture to exploit open source information for decision support

• Open framework: in order to accept existing or future tools

Research Projects

• EU FP7 project, Theme ICT

• M-Eco = event-based surveillance system for early detection of emerging health threats

• Goal: Complement traditional reporting mechanisms

• Information sources: Social media & multi media data (online media, weblogs, scientific/non-scientific discussion, Twitter, etc.)

• Highly user-driven project

Research Projects

• MDL (Multimedia Documentation Lab)

• Austrian National Security Research Project (KIRAS)

• Information system for situational awareness

• Focus: process & analysis of vast amounts of data from open sources in different formats (multi-media content)

• Purpose: Risk assessment and situational awareness

Take Home Messages

• Leading innovator in the field of speech and language technology

• Provider of OSINT / media observation solutions

• World-wide customer base

• Consulting services / technical workshops

• Customized solutions

• Government / Commercial market

• Austrian owned / Austrian IP

SAIL LABS Technology AG

Mariannengasse 14 · 1090 Vienna · Austria

Ph +43-1-580 95- 0 · Fax +43-1-580 95-580

www.sail-technology.com