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UTTER USER DAY - JOIN US IN BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF MULTIMODAL EXTENDED REALITY TECHNOLOGIES
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Join us for UTTER User Day, a groundbreaking remote meetup focused on advancing multimodal LLMs and NLP research. Engage with cutting-edge XR technologies, participate in expert discussions, and be part of shaping the future of this dynamic field.
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Event: UTTER First In-Person Meeting
Date: 19th-20th June, 2023
Location: Amsterdam
Event: UTTER Kick-off Meeting
Date: 24th-27th October, 2022
Location: online
Funding opportunity for research organization and SMEs – development and application of deep models for extended reality
Our Horizon Europe project, UTTER, invites project proposals from research organizations and SMEs to develop and/or pilot applications of large pretrained language models with a focus on enabling human-human and human-machine interaction. Successful applications will receive up to € 60 000 each, and run for 6-9 months. The call closes on October 15, 2023.
Below is an exhaustive compilation of essential documentation pertaining to the Submission & Evaluation process:
Proposals are to be submitted via UTTER’s proposal management portal at: https://utter-fstp.science.uva.nl
Please check out these two video recordings showcasing our project prototypes:
Below are the tentative key facts for the UTTER FSTP funding. The final version will be confirmed when submissions open.
In a sentence, UTTER will take online and hybrid interaction to the next level, where users interact in an extended reality. We will develop the technology which will make that possible and we will demonstrate it in two use cases.
We will develop conversation platforms in which human agents interact while being assisted by AI agents.
Our meeting assistant will empower users of videoconferencing tools, with capabilities such as summarisation, minuting, and retrieval.
Our multilingual customer support assistant empowers a customer service agent to provide support in any language.
In UTTER we will develop technologies that will provide the next level of support for online and hybrid meetings, that will offer an eXtended Reality (XR) experience. We will provide the type of meeting support that would normally only have been possible with a personal assistant, such as automatically taking minutes and summaries, and providing transcripts. Our XR models will also be applied to online customer support.
The main project objectives are:
1. Research: Advancing research in responsible creation and application of multilingual, multimodal pretrained XR models
- Advance the state-of-the-art in multimodal, multilingual pre-trained models and their application to downstream tasks. This project will focus on making them customizable, efficient, and ethical.
2. Deployment: Development of new methods and algorithms for adapted, contextualised, and robust dialogue assistant XR models
- Leverage multimodal models to deliver tools which provide a new paradigm in quality, robustness, and contextualisation capabilities for dialogue assistant components such as transcription, translation, and summarisation.
3. Integration: Development of tools for online meetings and customer support agents
- Design and implementation of interfaces to visualise, edit and publish transcripts, minutes, combined with meeting platforms like Zoom to deliver multilingual transcription and translation support.
4. Exploitation: Sustainable, maintainable platform and services
- Development of a plan for sustainable exploitation and use of the platforms, systems and technologies developed in UTTER.
5. Dissemination: Dissemination and communication of project results to stakeholders
- Dissemination and communication of project results to stakeholders and user group. Successful promotion and use of platform in the pilots run under the financial support to third parties call.
Universiteit van Amsterdam
[ UVA ]
Netherland
Maryam Hashemi Shabestari
Project manager
Unbabel
[ UNB ]
Portugal
José Souza
Researcher
Instituto de Telecomunicações
[ IT ]
Portugal
André Martins
Scientific coordinator and Researcher
Naver Labs Europe
[ NAV ]
France
Laurent Besacier
Innovation coordinator and Researcher
The University of Edinburgh
[ UEDIN ]
United Kingdom
Alexandra Birch
Ethics coordinator and Researcher
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101070631 and from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government's Horizon Europe funding guarantee (Grant No 10039436). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the UTTER consortium only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union and UKRI. Neither the European Union nor the UKRI nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.