MiTAP for Bio-Security: A Case Study
March 2002
Laurie Damianos, The MITRE Corporation
David Day, The MITRE Corporation
Lynette Hirschman, The MITRE Corporation
Jay Ponte, The MITRE Corporation
Florence Reeder, The MITRE Corporation
George Wilson, The MITRE Corporation
Steve Wohlever, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
MiTAP (MITRE Text and Audio Processing) is a prototype system available for monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and other global events. MiTAP focuses on providing timely, multi-lingual, global information access to medical experts and individuals involved in humanitarian assistance and relief work. Multiple information sources in multiple languages are automatically captured, filtered, translated, summarized, and categorized by disease, region, information source, person, and organization. Critical information is automatically extracted and tagged to facilitate browsing, searching, and sorting. The system supports shared situational awareness through collaboration, allowing users to submit other articles for processing, annotate existing documents, post directly to the system, and flag messages for others to see. MiTAP currently stores over one million articles and processes an additional 2000 to 10,000 daily, delivering up-to-date information to dozens of regular users.
Additional Search Keywords
translingual, machine translation, information detection, extraction, summarization, user-centered evaluation, human language technology, infectious disease monitoring
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