Semantic Targeting for Open Source Intelligence Analysis

Next Century Corporation proposes to develop text analytic technology that crosses the semantic gap at the shallow (but broad) area of event representation. The Event Representation and Structuring of Text (EVEREST) system will search for mappings to a semantic event model, interactively suggesting evidence for the occurrence of whole or partial events for human analysis and reporting. Our semantic targeting approach extends the ideas Open Information Extraction, Event Web, Semantic Web, and the Ozone Widget Framework. We believe that an event-centric approach will be critical for generating narratives that confer meaning upon large, complex, uncertain, and incomplete data sets.