Tactical Human Intelligence Interview Device

The Phase I effort will provide a significant step toward the goal of developing a tactical HUMINT interview translator that will enable real time interrogation of captured combatants and prevent the loss of perishable tactical information. To achievethis, we will identify key interrogation scenarios in cooperation with the Army, analyze the linguistic and domain content of these scenarios, and develop within the first three months an initial expectation-based, speaker-independent two-way translationprototype using the content of the selected interrogation scenarios. This rapid prototyping effort is made possible using LSI's existing spoken translation software, and is based on our extensive experience in conversational dialogue development, as wellas our background in military intelligence.The second half of the Phase I effort will focus on the development of the linguistic knowledge bases for the initial spontaneous dialogue prototype, evaluating the computational linguistic design of LSI's advanced engine, and finally, providing an initialdemonstration of the prototype for handling spontaneous dialogues/conversations using this engine. Thus, at Phase I completion, we will have designed, developed, and demonstrated an initial capability for a tactical HUMINT interview translator, which willallow us to