By Robert Green, Senior Editor
 

Short on operatives fluent in Arabic, U.S. intelligence agencies might soon be using software to fill the gap. Specifically, the AeroText Arabic Rules Knowledge Base system from Lockheed Martin has recently been introduced in a form that can handle up to 30 different Arabic dialects, according to company officials. More

The new Arabic component for AeroText 3.0 is expected to be used in Iraq and other places U.S. agents are attempting to extract meaningful information relating to entities and relationships while working with sometimes massive and disparate documents, and with interrogation and investigation transcripts.

The CIA, military intelligence and other agencies are reportedly overloaded with a backlog of materials that might only be sorted through by a knowledge management/content analysis system. AeroText. is an IDE-based extraction system that runs various content analysis applications, automatically creates databases, and allows for advanced routing, browsing, summarizing and searching.

Custom and web applications are also a feature of AeroText, which already handles other difficult languages such as Chinese. "The AeroText Arabic Rules Knowledge Base option improves the effectiveness of data extraction in over 30 Arabic dialects, such as modern standard Arabic, Egyptian, Gulf/Peninsula, Sudanese, Iraqi, Levantine, Najdi and greater Arab Maghreb dialects," a company official said.

"The Arabic Rules Knowledge Base also identifies entity information such as people, organizations, locations, time and numeric expressions and also distinguishes relationships among these entities."

KB systems are increasingly designed for analysts not programmers who might later want specialized applications developed but begin with a plethora of standard features that run in a graphical user environment.

Tasks associated with such systems can include significant text processing for turning documents into more easily analyzed databases in which entities might be recognized, associated and referred, grammatical phrases recognized, events extracted, topics categorized and links analyzed. Organizations facing tough data overloads are increasingly opting for KB systems even when a foreign language is not the issue.

Robert Green can be reached at RobertGreen@PubSector.com.

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