Multimodal Data Collection in the AMASS++project

The AMASS++ project is a project sponsored by Flemish public interests aimed at increasing the usefulness and usability of multimedia archives - notably combined text, audio and visual data - through the application of natural language and image processing technologies. To this end, we are collecting digital print media news reports, and television news programming. This data will be thematically organized and includes annotated television news programming and text media in both English and Dutch. The project's purpose is to develop and implement technologies to perform cross-language and cross-media search, summarization and user-friendly, productive presentation of results.