Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives (AIDA)
Abstract
The Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives (AIDA) program is developing a multi-hypothesis semantic engine that generates explicit alternative interpretations of events, situations, and trends from a variety of unstructured sources, for use in an environment where there are noisy, conflicting, and potentially deceptive data. Information from each medium is often analyzed independently, without the context provided by information from other media resulting in only one interpretation, with alternatives being eliminated due to lack of evidence even in the absence of contradictory evidence. When these independent, impoverished analyses are combined, generally late in the analysis process, the result can be a single apparent consensus view that does not reflect a true consensus. To overcome these limitations, AIDA seeks to research, develop, and demonstrate technology capable of automatically mapping information derived from multiple sources into a common semantic representation, aggregating information, resolving ambiguities, discovering conflicting information, and generating and exploring multiple interpretations of events, situations, or trends of interest. If successful, AIDA will provide decision makers a capability to understand alternatives and make contingency plans accordingly. Transition partners include operational commands and the intelligence community. AIDA builds on technology developed in the Deep Exploration and Filtering of Text program.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- ce57d1425d86aef9d12ee9624b11ee8d