1. 1 Allen Sears CNRI TIDES Kick-off 22 March, 2000 Military Relevance for TIDES

2. 2 Program Goals 1.Develop radically new “machine translation” process and capability: DARPA Quick MT 2.Automatically retrieve information from total overload (10,000 communications and hour) of language sources e.g.: Web, audio broadcast, text documents, etc.: DARPA IDES Process 3.Develop a metrics-based evaluation framework used to enable experimental process and measure progress 4. Demonstrate relevance to military problem areas such as “detection and prevention of biological attack” 5. Develop new concepts of operation require multilingual capability, such as HA/DR/CM (Humanitarian Assistance / Disaster Relief / Consequence Management)

3. Exercise Strong Angel June 2000 The scenario… Humanitarian Assistance »Increasing violence against Green minority in Orange »Green minority refugees massing in border mountains —Ethnic Green crossing into Green, though Orange citizens »Live bomblets found near roads »Basics in short supply —water, shelter, medical care Hawaii

4. 4 Program Structure Tides Portal Plug and play framework Metrics-based Experiments Technology Base Other related activities MITRE BBN Lincoln GITI FBIS SSC-SD Third Fleet others ??

5. Crime India-Pakistan Border Incursions Summary: Border incursions are becoming more frequent and more serious. In the last 3 days, 2 incidents have been reported. Civilian Military US NewsUS military NPR clipSource A NBC clipSource B MoreSource C India NewsSource D Source 1 More Source 2NATO MoreSource a Pakistan NewsSource b Source 1Source c Source 2Source dMore Other NewsOther military Etc.Etc. Etc. Tools Background Lexicon 1st incursionThreads Previous analysisCustomize Reports Predicted Responses Search: India Pakistan Other countries\ International Political Human Rights Military China / Taiwan India / Pakistan border incursions Quickly Reduce and Organize Information Time 1. Filter 1M’s -> 100K’s 3. Thread 1K’s -> 100’s 4. Target 100’s -> 10’s 5. Distribute 10’s 2. Cluster 100K’s -> 1K’s

6. 6 Summary: Military Relevance Objectives Near Term “Military Relevance” Objectives: Demonstrate potential benefit of TIDES technology to military and intelligence community by June 2000. Prepare the way for technology transition. Realistic Problems: PacTIDES Experiment for HA/DR in June ‘00 Real Data: TIDES Portal pulling on real data from FBIS shown by June ‘00.

7. 7 Summary: Military Relevance Objectives Longer - term Technical objectives : Provide automatic language translation for selected material from Web, text, and audio sources. (Mandarin Chinese is focus in 2001) Assist military and intelligence analysts with automatic extraction and filtering of information from language sources.