Workshop.

Department of Homeland SecurityAdvanced Scientific Computing ProgramText Analysis WorkshopMay 25-26, 2005Hilton Alexandria Old TownAlexandria, VA Computer software provides various means of searching, sorting, and navigating through sets of text documents. The terrorist threat challenge is for a computer to sift through a large amount of text data, and provide a human with accurate and relevant potential threat scenarios supported by relevant subsets of documents. There is a vast collection of information captured in human language over the past several centuries. The human ability to process language is relatively slow, perhaps a few hundred pages of information per day. In the current environment a human may be called upon to quickly assess a potential terrorist threat based on thousands of pages of information. These requests are beyond what humans can reasonably do, and therefore limit the quality and effectiveness of decisions made. Computers and software have the capability to rapidly process ... Read More