Hawk: Knowlege Acuisition Starting With Natural Language

Abstract

DARPA's Rapid Knowledge Formation program is developing new technology to automate the task of transforming raw human-understandable information into encoded, machine-understandable information. The project described in this report addresses a central subtask of this task: converting natural language text into and encoded representation that can support computer inference. The technical approach taken in this effort is based on two key insights: First, we can make the translation task manageable by breaking it into successive stages of isolating information, then standardizing it, then encoding it, with each stage facilitated by proven components of natural language processing technology. Second, we can gain leverage during the translation process by exploiting human interaction at a number of distinct points along the way.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA400198

Entities

People

  • Boris Katz
  • Gary Borchardt
  • Sue Felshin

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Computers
  • Crisis Management
  • International Organizations
  • Language
  • National Security
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Languages
  • Persian Gulf
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction
  • World Wide Web

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Molecular Genetics
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation