Translingual Information Detection, Extraction and Summarization (TIDES) is a technology development program funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), focused on the automated processing and understanding of language data.
The primary goal of the program is to enable English speakers to locate and interpret required information quickly and effectively regardless of the original language.
The four component capabilities of the technology being developed by TIDES includes: Tools for detection, extraction, and summarization must work within a language (monolingually) and across languages (translingually), to be used by people who speak only English.
TIDES aims to integrate the component capabilities together and with other technologies to produce tools for real-world applications.
The information is collected from public websites around the world, including Ha'aretz, Pravda, the Jordan Times, The People's Daily, The Washington Post, and others.