Eduard Hovy

Research and Event Support Grants

Center grants

  • The Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis (CCICADA), a Center of Excellence headed by Rutgers University, the prime contractor, with about twenty other institutions. Department of Homeland Security. 6 years. October 2009
  • The Center for Large-Scale Strategic Knowledge Integration and Discovery from Multiple Media (CKID). PI. Department of Homeland Security. 2 years. August 2006

    Research grants

  • A Method to Retrieve Non-Textual Data from Widespread Repositories. NSF. 1 year. PI, with Callan (CMU) and De Waard (Elsevier). September 2014
  • REAPER: Reading, Extraction, and Assembly of Pathways for Evidentiary Reasoning. DARPA. 3.5 years. PI, with colleagues at CMU (Mitamura), ISI (Burns and Chalupsky), and Elsevier (De Waard, Yuryev). July 2014
  • Gripper: Workflow Analysis and Language Technology to Combat Human Trafficking. PI. BORDERS center, University of Arizona. 1 year. January 2014.
  • SAFT: Semantic Analysis and Filtering of Text. DARPA. 4.5 years. PI, with colleagues at CMU (Carbonell, Cohen, Levin, Mitamura, Smith, Yang) and ISI (Chalupsky, Hobbs). November 2012
  • SocMed: Situational Awareness for Social Media. DARPA. 3 years. With colleagues at ISI (Galstyan, Lerman, Macskassy), and USC. December 2011
  • MICS: Metaphor Interpretation in terms of Culturally-relevant Schemas. IARPA. 1 year. With Hobbs (ISI, the PI), and partners at U of Texas and Alelo Inc. March 2012.
  • RACR-ISI: Reader and Contextual Reasoner. DARPA. 5 years (colleagues at ISI are Hobbs and Chalupsky). Headed by IBM Yorktown Heights, with partners at U of Texas Austin, CMU, and U of Utah. May 2009
  • ERUDITE-ISI: Language Inferences from Text. DARPA. 5 years. With partners at BBN (the PI), CMU, U of Washington, CYC, and Oregon State. May 2009
  • Natural Language and Knowledge Representation for ICT's Virtual Human Architecture. US Army. 2 years. Headed by USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. November 2009
  • Text Summarization of Geospatially Located Information. DARPA (STTR grant with Geosemble Technologies). 2 years. January 2009
  • Collaborative Design of an Open Framework for QA. PI. IBM. Open time-frame. December 2008
  • A Meta-Analysis of Homeland Security Research. PI. Naval Postgraduate School. 6 months. June 2008
  • The OntoBank for AGILE. DARPA (GALE program). With Weischedel (BBN, the PI), Marcus (U Penn) and Palmer (U of Colorado). Extends period of ongoing OntoNotes grant for additional 8 months. April 2008
  • Natural Language and Knowledge Management for ICT's SASO Virtual Human Architecture. US Army. 2 years. Headed by USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. November 2007
  • OntoBank for AGILE. DARPA (GALE program). With Weischedel (BBN, the PI), Marcus (U Penn) and Palmer (U of Colorado). 12 months. October 2007
  • Distillation Research for AGILE. DARPA (GALE program). With Weischedel (BBN, the PI). 12 months. October 2007
  • eRule-BIRD: A Framework for Multi‑Dimensional Analysis of Text. NSF. With Shulman (U of Pittsburgh, the PI) and Callan (CMU). 3 years. August 2007
  • GeoDec: A Geospatial Decision Making Environment. DARPA (STTR grant with Geosemble Technologies). 9 months. August 2007
  • NSF-China: A Framework to Establish an R&D Collaboration on Digital Government. PI. NSF. 9 months. August 2007
  • Möbius--II: Learning by Reading -- Demonstrating Semantic Interpretation. PI. DARPA (via subcontract from SRI). 12 months. February 2007
  • CALO-NL: Concept Learning by Harvesting Unstructured Text. DARPA (CALO program), via SRI. Part of larger CALO project component at ISI. 12 months. November 2006
  • QUICK-USDA. With Clarke (USC School of Communications) and Evans (USC Medical School). USDA. 2 years. September 2006
  • Reconciling and Regularizing the Omega Upper Model. PI. With Hobbs (ISI). Department of Defense, via NSF. 1 year. 2006
  • Natural Language Capabilities for ICT's SASO Virtual Agents. US Army (via subcontract to USC Institute for Creative Technologies. 2 years. 2005
  • Möbius-seed: Knowledge Acquisition Verification and Correction. PI. DARPA (via subcontract to SRI). 16 months. 2005
  • Supplement to Language Processing Technology for Electronic Rulemaking. With Shulman (U of Pittsburgh, the PI), Callan (CMU), and Zavestoski (San Francisco U). NSF. 1 year. 2005
  • The OntoBank for AGILE. With Weischedel (BBN), Marcus (U Penn), and Palmer (U of Colorado). DARPA GALE program. 1 year. 2005
  • Distillation research for AGILE. With Weischedel (BBN, the PI), Schwartz (BBN), and Dorr (U of Maryland). DARPA GALE program. 1 year. 2005
  • Möbius: Learning by Reading. PI. DARPA seedling project, via SRI. 9 months, 2005
  • CALO-NL: Harvesting from Unstructured Text. DARPA CALO program, via SRI. 14 months, 2005
  • Natural Language Capabilities for ICT's SASO Virtual Agents. US Army via subcontract to USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. 2 years. 2005
  • Supplement to Language Processing Technology for Electronic Rulemaking. With Shulman (U of Pittsburgh, the PI), Callan (CMU), and Zavestoski (San Francisco U). NSF Digital Government program. 1 year. 2005
  • Learning Ontological Knowledge in Stages by Reading. PI. DARPA seedling project. 9 months. 2005
  • Ontology Content Compression and Harmonization. PI. Department of Defense via NSF. 1 year. 2005
  • PSY-Agents 2: Information Agents, Text Extraction, and Data Integration for PSYOP. With Knoblock (the PI), Marsella, and Chalupsky (all from ISI), and Minton (Fetch Inc.). SOCOM (Department of Defense). 10 months. 2005
  • R&D in Natural Language Capabilities for ICT's MRE. US Army via subcontract to USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. 1 year. 2004
  • PSY-Agents 1: Information Agents, Text Extraction, and Data Integration for PSYOP. With Knoblock (the PI), Marsella, and Chalupsky (all from ISI), and Minton (Fetch Inc.). SOCOM (Department of Defense). 6 months. 2004
  • Language Processing Technology for Electronic Rulemaking. With Shulman (U of Pittsburgh, the PI), Callan (CMU), and Zavestoski (San Francisco U). NSF Digital Government program. 3 years. 2004
  • Exploring Ontologies across Continents: A Collaboration Exploration between ISI and the EU’s QUALEG Project. PI. NSF Digital Government program. 1 year, supplement to ITR grant. 2004
  • R&D in Natural Language Capabilities for ICT's MRE. US Army via USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. 1 year. 2004
  • Large-scale Enrichment of Ontological Definitions to Support MT. PI. Department of Defense, via NSF. 1 year. 2003
  • The Webclopedia (extension): Text Summarization and Summary Evaluation. PI. DARPA (TIDES program). 1 year. 2003
  • Interlingual Annotation of Multilingual Text Corpora. Joint with five co-PIs, at New Mexico State University, Columbia University, University of Maryland, MITRE, and CMU. NSF. 1 year. 2003
  • EPA-AIR: Automating the Integration of Heterogeneous Databases. PI. NSF Digital Government program. 3 years, 2003
  • SGER: A Testbed for eRulemaking Data. With Shulman (Drake University; the PI), Zavestoski (U of San Francisco), and Callan (CMU). NSF SGER small exploratory grant, Digital Government program. 1 year. 2003
  • Modeling Process and Change in Knowledge-Intensive Work Environments. PI. With O’Leary, USC Marshall School of Business. Department of Defense, via NSF. 2 years. 2003
  • Training Superiority: Rapid Development of Mission-Oriented Communication Skills. With Johnson (ISI, the PI). DARPA. 3 years. 2003
  • R&D in Natural Language Capabilities for ICT. US Army, via USC's Institute for Creative technologies. 1 year. 2003
  • HALO Phase II OmniScience. PI. With Chalupsky, ISI. Vulcan Inc., via subcontract to ISX. 6 months. 2003
  • ISI-NL: Natural Language Generation and Parsing for the Mission Rehearsal Environment. US Army, via USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. 3 years. 2002
  • Information Discovery in Digital Government: Self-extending Topic Maps and Ontologies. PI. NSF ITR program (medium grant). 3 years. 2002
  • Textmap: Advanced Question Answering. PI. With Marcu and Knight (both ISI). ARDA. 2 years. 2001
  • EDC-ML: Multilinguality for the EDC System. PI. (Subcontract from Columbia University). NSF. 3 years. 2001
  • ICT-SPEECH: Natural Language Generation and Parsing for the Mission Rehearsal Environment. US Army, via USC's Institute for Creative Technologies. 1 year. 2001
  • CORCO: Content Representation Canonical Ontology. PI. Department of Defense. 1 year. 2001
  • The Webclopedia: Multilingual Question Answering from the Web. PI. DARPA. 3 years. 2000
  • ISLE: Evaluation Framework for Machine Translation. Portion of larger grant, under the University of Pennsylvania. NSF and EU. 2 years. 2000
  • GEOTIDES: Enhancing Geospatial Information Delivery with Natural Language Capabilities. With Neches (ISI, the PI). DARPA. 1 year. 1999
  • EDC: Ontology Construction for Information Access and Delivery in the US Government Energy Information Administration. With others at ISI and Columbia University in the DGRC Consortium. NSF. 1 year. 1999
  • DMT: Discourse Processing for Machine Translation in Japanese. With Marcu (ISI, the PI). US Department of Defense. 1 year. 1998
  • EXTENUATE: Extending the Multilingual Summarization Abilities of SUMMARIST. PI. Department of Defense. 1 year. 1998
  • Designing Robust Technology for Automatic Language Generation. PI. With Knight (ISI). DARPA. 1 year. 1998
  • C*ST*RD: Clustering, Summarization, Translation, Reformatting, and Display of Large Sets of Multimedia Documents. PI. DARPA. 3 years. 1997
  • SUMMARIST: Robust Automated Multilingual Text Summarization. PI. US Department of Defense (TIPSTER-III Program). 3 years. 1996
  • FSTRANS: Performance- and User-Oriented Enhancements to Machine Translation. PI. With Knight (ISI). US Department of Defense. 1 year. 1996
  • Cross-Ontology Alignment. PI. IBM, San Jose. 1996
  • ARABTRANS: Arabic-to-English Machine Translation. PI. With Knight (ISI). US Department of Defense. 4 years. 1996
  • SYSTRMT: Enhancement of English Generation in SYSTRAN's Machine Translation. (Subcontract to SYSTRAN Inc.) US Department of Defense. 18 months. 1996
  • MEDTRANS: Communication and Translation of Medical Information<. With Balzer (ISI). DARPA. 4 years. 1994
  • PANGLOSS: Knowledge-Based Statistical and Symbolic Machine Translation. Co-PI, with others at CMU andNew Mexico State U. ARPA / US Department of Defense. 2 years. 1993
  • An Interlingual and Systemics-Based Approach to Machine Translation. PI. ARPA. 3 years. 1991
  • English Language Generation Technology. PI. With Mann and Kasper (ISI). RADC. 2 years. 1989

    Conference and workshop support grants

  • Funding to develop collaborative research opportunities between ISI and researchers in China. NSF. June 2007
  • Funding to support three dg.o conferences for NSF's Digital Government Program in 2000--02. NSF. 2000
  • Funding to support International Workshop in Multilingual Information Management. Workshop commissioned by NSF and held in conjunction with International Conference on Language Resources (LREC) in Granada, Spain. NSF. 1998
  • Funding to support the 6th International Machine Translation Summit in San Diego, CA. AAAI and NSF. 1997
  • Funding to support the 7th International Language Generation Workshop in Kennebunkport, ME. NSF and AAAI. 1994
  • Funding to support the international workshop Burning Issues in Discourse Structure in Maratea, Italy, 1993. (With Prof. D. Scott, Brighton University, UK). NATO. 1993
  • Funding to support the 6th International Language Generation Workshop near Trento, Italy. ACL. 1992

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