PACTIDES 2000 10 14 June 2000 MITRE Rob

PACTIDES 2000 10 -14 June, 2000 MITRE Rob Hyland Jeff Kurtz Steve Janiak John Griffith Rob Mc. Cready Rod Holland Lynette Hirschman Laurie Damianos BBN Francis Kubala Sean Colbath Scott Sheppard Zhidong Lu Lincoln Lab Cliff Weinstein Young-Suk Lee GITI Barry Silk Alok Nigam Aaron Glahe Ted Strollo Hank Seebeck

Translingual Information Detection Extraction Summarization PACTIDES Goals • Integrate emerging TIDES Technologies • Demonstrate end to end processing in English • Demonstrate military relevance • Process world wide web, radio, text, television • Create web portal for translingual sources • Create capability to rapidly find answers • Evaluate the utility of the portal during exercise

TIDES Portal: End-to-End Processing Translingual Information Detection Extraction Summarization Tools TIDES Services/Objects Transcription, Named Entity, Video Classification, Speaker ID, Topic Detection, Segmentation, Summarization “Can you tell me about any international missile activity? ” Threatsof far East missile launch effects Western nations OSN OASIS ~ 1, 000 Stories CCLinc BNN Web Harvest

1. Capture and Indexing TIDES Services/Objects OSN OASIS ~ 1, 000 Stories CCLinc BNN Web Harvest This will require indexing via names, temporal-spatial coordinates and events This will require multiple layers of annotation Challenge: How to go from collection to information web?

2. Uniform Access to Distributed Collections Challenge: For each query, access and return an appropriate set of documents TIDES Services/Objects OSN OASIS >1, 000 Stories CCLinc This will require either re-indexing of collections for uniformity or solving the distributed collection merging problem or aggregating rich meta-data across documents Workspace BNN Web Harvest

3. Uniform Interface Challenge: Combine multiple media, and sources into an appropriate answer with drill down The answer must be tailored to the user and can take many forms, from a single phrase to a summary, to a table, to a briefing

TIDES Portal Components

Translingual Information Detection Extraction Summarization OASIS: Speech Processing

Translingual Information Detection Extraction Summarization World Wide Open Source News

Translingual Information Detection Extraction Summarization Broadcast News Navigator

CCLINC English/Korean Translingual Information System 개성 근처 그리 에서핵 고 또 폭발 미사 이 있었 일을 던 발사 것같음 한듯 n ea e? r ko lin th ont r o r e n he f h k’s n? t t n s in t’ of japa s ha ent t u W em tat ains s v g mo the h a s c ’ at un Wh ile la ss mi CCLINC SERVER o Inf ion t c ete D Extraction Summarization Tra nsla tion North Korea seems to have launched missile again. After nk’s daipodong missile launch last month, it is perceived that they enforce addition test launch of ballistic missile. Korea, US, and Japan enter into an emergency state. US airforce decides to send strategic destroyer to GUAM base. S-H Hong Koean foreign minister visiting Japan disccuses with Gomura Masahiko Japan foreign minister a response policy in case north korea launch a missile again. Japan. . . .

TIDES Situation Book: Information Organization

Geo. NODE: Spatial and Temporal Summarization

High-level View of TIDES Portal Session Contents of selected datapoint Activity in TIDES Situation Book