PACTIDES 2000

10-14 June, 2000

MITRERob HylandJeff Kurtz

Steve JaniakJohn Griffith

Rob McCreadyRod Holland

Lynette HirschmanLaurie Damianos

BBNFrancis KubalaSean Colbath

Scott SheppardZhidong Lu

Lincoln LabCliff WeinsteinYoung-Suk Lee

GITIBarry Silk

Alok NigamAaron GlaheTed Strollo

Hank Seebeck

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

Translingual

Information Detection Extraction Summarization

TIDES Portal: End-to-End Processing

“Can you tell me about anyinternational missile activity?”

Threatsof far East missile launch effects Western nations

Translingual

Information Detection Extraction Summarization

Transcription, Named Entity,Video Classification,

Speaker ID, Topic Detection, Segmentation, Summarization

OASIS

CCLinc

TIDES Services/Objects

BNNOSN

~ 1,000,000Stories

Tools

WebHarvest

1. Capture and Indexing

OASIS

CCLinc

TIDES Services/Objects

BNNOSN

~ 1,000,000Stories Web

Harvest

Challenge: How to go from collection to information web?

This will require indexing via names, temporal-spatial coordinates and events

This will require multiple layers of annotation

2. Uniform Access to Distributed Collections

OASIS

CCLinc

TIDES Services/Objects

BNNOSN

>1,000,000Stories Web

Harvest

Challenge: For each query, access and return an appropriate set of documents

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

3. Uniform Interface

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

Challenge: Combine multiple media, and sources into an appropriate answer with drill down

TIDES Portal

Components

OASIS: Speech ProcessingTranslingual

Information Detection Extraction Summarization

World Wide Open Source News

Translingual

Information Detection Extraction Summarization

Broadcast News NavigatorTranslingual

Information Detection Extraction Summarization

CCLINC English/Korean TranslingualInformation System

CCLINC English/Korean TranslingualInformation System

Extraction

What’s th

e north korean

movement in th

e front li

ne?

개성근처에서핵폭발이 있었던것같음

그리고 또 미사일을 발사한듯

What’s th

e status of nk’s

missile la

unch against japan?

CCLINC SERVER

Info Detection

Translation

North Korea seems to have launched missile again.After nk’s daipodong missile launch last month, it isperceived that they enforce addition test launch of ballistic missile. Korea, US, and Japan enter into anemergency state. US airforce decides to send stra-tegic destroyer to GUAM base. S-H Hong Koean foreign minister visiting Japan disccuses with GomuraMasahiko Japan foreign minister a response policy incase north korea launch a missile again. Japan .......

Summarization

TIDES Situation Book: Information Organization

GeoNODE: Spatial and TemporalSummarization

High-level View of TIDES Portal Session

Contents of selected datapoint

Activity in TIDES Situation Book