IARPA - Socio-cultural Content in Language (SCIL) Program

SCIL Program

Program Manager
Heather McCallum-Bayliss

   - Heather's Areas of Interest
Human Language Technologies, Computational Linguistics, Cultural Diversity, Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Meaning, Knowledge Representation and Inference, Knowledge Discovery, Question-Answering, Machine Learning, Identity Discovery and Management, Data Modeling, Less Commonly Taught Languages, Machine Translation.

   - Heather's Phone
     (301) 851-7441

   - Heather's Email
     heather.mccallum-bayliss@ugov.gov

Program(s)

   SCIL
   Metaphor
     - Metaphor Program Proposers' Day Briefing

Key Articles & Results

Broad Agency Announcement(s)

   - SCIL Program
   - Metaphor Program

The Socio-cultural Content in Language (SCIL) Program intends to explore and develop novel designs, algorithms, methods, techniques and technologies to extend the discovery of the social goals of members of a group by correlating these goals with the language they use.

Language is used to do more than share information; people use it to reflect and establish social and cultural norms. The SCIL Program is attempting to exploit this fact and automatically identify social actions and characteristics of groups by examining the language used by the members of the groups. SCIL researchers are working in multiple languages, and machine translation is not permitted.