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There's never been a more exciting time to be involved in Human Language Technology (HLT). Advances in algorithms, architectures, and applications are making real differences in fulfilling missions around the world. We'll use the perspective of one specific, end-to-end use case starting from primary source collection going all the way through finished intelligence to show the value and importance of moving your HLT thinking from strings to things, from configuration to adaption, from isolation to collaboration, and from small scale to Big Text. This perspective will serve as a guide to the other talks of the day which together will give you greater insight in applying HLT to your mission.
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From Research to Reality: Advances in HLT 2013
1. From Research to Reality:
Advances in HLT
David Murgatroyd
VP, Engineering
Basis Technology
2. Let me tell you a story…
To show what’s possible with recent advances in HLT so
that you can consider how they can help your mission.
To connect today’s talks so that you can be more
informed in listening to them.
To spur discussion to motivate and inform future
advances in HLT.
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3. A Story…
This morning the CIA was asked by the President to assess
the chance that the Syrian opposition would use chemical
weapons by mid-2014.
As part of building that analysis, and because there are AlQaeda elements in the Syrian opposition, an analyst
named Amanda was asked to characterize Al-Qaeda’s
attitude on using chemical weapons against Middle
Eastern governments.
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7. Dear Brother, We need guidance from you on the issue of using chlorine gas technology. It was reported that the
brothers in Iraq have used it, but this was implicitly denied in a statement issued by the Islamic State of Iraq.
The brothers where Mahmud is have the potential to use chlorine gas on the forces of the apostates, Jalal
Talabani and Mas'ud Barzani, and have already considered using it. However, I informed them that matters as
serious as this require centralized [coordination] and permission from the senior [al-Qa'ida] leadership, because
the gas could be difficult to control and might harm some people, which could tarnish our image, alienate people
from us, and so on.”
From: Ayman Al-Zawahiri (?)
To: “Hafiz Sultan”
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8. Dear Brother, We need guidance from you on the issue of using chlorine gas technology. It was reported that the
brothers in Iraq have used it, but this was implicitly denied in a statement issued by the Islamic State of Iraq.
The brothers where Mahmud is have the potential to use chlorine gas on the forces of the apostates, Jalal
Talabani and Mas'ud Barzani, and have already considered using it. However, I informed them that matters as
serious as this require centralized [coordination] and permission from the senior [al-Qa'ida] leadership, because
the gas could be difficult to control and might harm some people, which could tarnish our image, alienate people
from us, and so on.”
From: Ayman Al-Zawahiri (?)
To: “Hafiz Sultan”
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9. Dear Brother, We need guidance from you on the issue of using chlorine gas technology. It was reported that the
brothers in Iraq have used it, but this was implicitly denied in a statement issued by the Islamic State of Iraq.
The brothers where Mahmud is have the potential to use chlorine gas on the forces of the apostates, Jalal
Talabani and Mas'ud Barzani, and have already considered using it. However, I informed them that matters as
serious as this require centralized [coordination] and permission from the senior [al-Qa'ida] leadership, because
the gas could be difficult to control and might harm some people, which could tarnish our image, alienate people
from us, and so on.”
From: Ayman Al-Zawahiri (?)
To: “Hafiz Sultan”
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77. Summary
Advances in HLT Include:
1. Mission-driven Applications that need more than HLT
2. Adaptation rather than Configuration
3. Move from Indexing Strings to Understanding Things
4. Broad Human-Computer Collaboration
79. Questions?
Suggestions:
1. How do you envision this story being different 5 years
from now?
2. What does it look like to do human-computer
collaboration well?
3. Could we someday replace standardizing to
transliterations to standardizing to resolved entities?