Lingsoft is participating in the NEMO (laNguagE modules develOpment) research project, which is funded by the European Defence Fund (in Finnish) and will focus on studying and developing language technology functionalities for the European defence industry.

The objective of NEMO is to build a prototype for a programme that utilises language technologies. The programme will be used to study the possibilities for applying those technologies in the defence industry. 

Another aim is to harness the potential of generative artificial intelligence and Large Language Models (LLM) in the defence sector. The prototype programme will process language in different forms and for different purposes: including spoken, handwritten and printed language. Lingsoft’s core competence lies in processing, refining and managing spoken and written language, and it will use this know-how to support the project. The aim is to utilise texts by means of keyword or name identification, semantic analysis, information retrieval, producing text summaries and translating them into all official EU languages and certain other languages.

The project is divided into four different language technology modules: speech recognition, identification of written documents, translation, and information retrieval. Lingsoft’s work will focus mainly on the speech recognition and translation areas. 

NEMO is based on the expertise of leading industrial and academic institutions in the language technology sector and the latest results of their development work. The prototype programme will be tailored to suit the needs of the defence sector by taking military-specific vocabulary into account to, for example, maximise the accuracy of speech recognition results. 

A total of 14 partners are participating in this international project. The partners include academic and industrial institutions, military universities and expert groups from nine different countries, such as VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, the Norwegian research institute SINTEF Norway and Zanasi & Partners from Italy. The five-year project begins in January 2025. 

Read more about the policy objectives set by the European Commission in 2023: “Agile and robust Human Language Technologies (HLT) for Defence”.

Read more about the European Defence Industrial Strategy.

Further information

Senior Advisor 
Ossi Tuusvuori
+358 40 760 8280
ossi.tuusvuori@lingsoft.fi