Automated Communications Analysis System using Latent Semantic Analysis

Abstract

This contract effort was initiated to develop and evaluate automated methods for analyzing verbal protocols related to air combat missions and verbal interactions amongst pilots during a mission and during the debriefing process to assess knowledge proficiency. In this report, the contractor describes prior research on communication analysis and how it can inform assessment of individual and team cognitive processing. Then, they describe techniques using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) which can perform analyses of communications and provide automated assessment of this rich source of data. Finally, they propose a course of research to evaluate LSA's effectiveness as a software agent to monitor communications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA454767

Entities

People

  • Peter W. Foltz

Organizations

  • New Mexico State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Contracts
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Military Research
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Psychology
  • Self Organizing Systems
  • Situational Awareness
  • Software Agents

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis