Terrorism Knowledge Base (TKB)

Abstract

The objective of this project was to support intelligence analysts by developing a comprehensive Terrorism Knowledge Base (TKB) which included information about terrorist events and terrorist groups and their members and activities, as well as information captured by the analyst's use of the tool. Using that knowledge base, plus the knowledge base and inference engine of our company's Cyc(r) technology, the TKB was to exhibit sophisticated reasoning using domain knowledge, externally-stored data, common sense knowledge and knowledge about what the analyst has considered relevant or irrelevant and templated question-answering with explanations. Analysts were to be able to use the TKB to pose terrorism-related queries, and to help them derive answers to those questions, integrate data, correlate observations, compose explanations, and, in general, augment their ability to effectively complete the reasoning tasks that they need to perform.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA481467

Entities

People

  • Chris Deaton
  • Douglas Lenat

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Criminals
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Explosives
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Inference Engines
  • Intelligence Analysts
  • Man Borne Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Natural Language Understanding
  • Personnel Management
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • User Interface
  • Victims

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Information Retrieval