Translingual Information Detection, Extraction and Summarization (TIDES) is a technology development program funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (
DARPA
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
Originally known as the A ...
), 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.
Components
The four component capabilities of the technology being developed by TIDES includes:
* Detection – Locating required information.
* Extraction – Pulling out key facts.
*
Summarization – Reducing the information into a readable length.
* Translation – Converting text from another language into English.
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. In addition to developing technology, TIDES is also researching methods to adapt it quickly and cheaply to other languages, including languages with limited linguistic resources. TIDES aims to integrate the component capabilities together and with other technologies to produce tools for real-world applications.
Investigative Data Warehouse
The
FBI's
Investigative Data Warehouse
Investigative Data Warehouse (IDW) is a searchable database operated by the FBI. It was created in 2004. Much of the nature and scope of the database is classified. The database is a centralization of multiple federal and state databases, inclu ...
contains an open-source news library, containing news gathered by the TIDES program. The information is collected from public websites around the world, including ''
Ha'aretz
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'', ''
Pravda
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'', the ''
Jordan Times
''The Jordan Times'' is an English-language daily newspaper based in Amman, Jordan.
History
Established in 1975, ''The Jordan Times'' is owned by the Jordan Press Foundation, a shareholding company which also runs the Arabic-language daily '' A ...
'', ''
The People's Daily'', ''The Washington Post'', and others. It uses the Mitre Text and Audio Processing (
MiTAP) system.
FBI, Security Concept of Operations IDW, 2004 11 29
pages 50, 51 of linked pdf
See also
* Open Source Intelligence
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is the collection and analysis of data gathered from open sources (covert and publicly available sources) to produce actionable intelligence. OSINT is primarily used in national security, law enforcement, and busi ...
Notes and Bibliography
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External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20051203033617/http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/tides/
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TIDES
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