Multilingual Access to Large spoken ArCHives (MALACH)
Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, MALACH is a
joint research effort of the University of Maryland, the Survivors of
the Shoah Visual History Foundation, IBM, and Johns Hopkins
University. The project's purpose is to dramatically improve access
to large multilingual collections of recorded speech in oral history
archives. Researchers are using Holocaust survivor testimonies
collected by the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to
test this technology.
The MALACH Team
Research and Academic Units
Faculty and Research Staff
Present Students
- Ratan Achreja, Computer Science (B.S.)
- Zvi Band, Computer Science (B.S.)
- Benzion Chin, Bernard Revel Graduate School (M.A.)
- Elizabeth Howe, Information Studies (MLS)
- Xiaoli Huang, Information Studies
- Firouzeh Jalilian, Computer Science (B.S.)
- Jinmook Kim, Information Studies
- Bill Kules, Computer Science (Ph.D.)
- Angela Kurtz, History (Ph.D.)
- Baolong Liu, Information Studies (Ph.D.)
- Jay Liu, Computer Science (B.S.)
- Craig Murray, Information Studies (Ph.D.)
- Katy Newton Lawley, Information Studies (Ph.D.)
- Scott Olsson, Applied Math (Ph.D.)
- Stefan Papioannou, History (Ph.D.)
- Daniel Rubin, History (Ph.D.)
- Ruth Schlachter, History (Ph.D.)
- Nicholas Schlosser, History (Ph.D.)
- Ariel Segal, Information Studies and History (MLS/M.A.)
- Ingo Wolfgang Trauschweizer, History (Ph.D.)
- Jianqiang Wang, Information Studies (Ph.D.)
Project Alumnai
- Josiane Alagbe, Computer Science (B.S.)
- Joanne Archer, Information Studies and History (MLS/M.A.)
- Wilma Bainbridge, Balir School
- Kimberly Braun, Information Studies (MLS)
- Funda Ertunc, Computer Science (M.S.)
- Ammie Fiejoo, Information Studies (MLS)
- Lydia Fraser, Information Studies (Ph.D.)
- Alida Friedrich, Information Studies and History (MLS/M.A.)
- Soojung Kim, Information Studies (Ph.D.)
- Lily Kharevych, Computer Science (B.S.)
- Chuck McCallum, Information Studies and Geography (MLS/M.A.)
- Joan Meyer, Information Studies (MLS)
- Denise Patterson, Information Studies (MLS)
- Elizabeth Proffen, Information Studies (MLS)
- Jill Reilly, Information Studies and History (MLS/M.A.)
- Theresa Sartori, Information Studies (MLS)
- Julie Schweitzer, Information Studies and History (MLS/M.A.)
Group Activities
Related Resources
- MALACH
- Link to the main MALACH project web site, which contains links
and contact information for our partner institutions and a complete
set of papers that report on our work.
- Voicegraph project
- An earlier project looking at visualition of speech retrieval
results that led (somewhat indirectly) to starting the MALACH project.
This site is no longer maintained, but there are some interesting
ideas here..
- Resources related to the Holocaust
- Some other collections that provide context to our work.
- Speech-Based
Information Retrieval
- Links to other speech-based IR resources on the Web. This page
is not actively maintained, but there is a wealth of information
available.
Other Stuff
Last modified: Wed May 18 19:02:25 2005
Doug Oard
oard@glue.umd.edu
