Editing DARPA TIDES program

{{Short description|US military program}}
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'''Translingual Information Detection, Extraction and Summarization (TIDES)''' is a technology development program funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ([[DARPA]]), focused on the automated processing and understanding of language data. The primary goal of the program is to enable English speakers to locate and interpret required information quickly and effectively regardless of the original language.

==Components==

The four component capabilities of the technology being developed by TIDES includes:
* Detection &ndash; Locating required information.
* Extraction &ndash; Pulling out key facts.
* [[Automatic summarization|Summarization]] &ndash; Reducing the information into a readable length.
* Translation &ndash; Converting text from another language into English.

Tools for detection, extraction, and summarization must work within a language (monolingually) and across languages (translingually), to be used by people who speak only English. In addition to developing technology, TIDES is also researching methods to adapt it quickly and cheaply to other languages, including languages with limited linguistic resources. TIDES aims to integrate the component capabilities together and with other technologies to produce tools for real-world applications.

==Investigative Data Warehouse==
The [[FBI]]'s [[Investigative Data Warehouse]] contains an open-source news library, containing news gathered by the TIDES program. The information is collected from public websites around the world, including ''[[Ha'aretz]]'', ''[[Pravda]]'', the ''[[Jordan Times]]'', ''[[The People's Daily]]'', ''The Washington Post'', and others.<ref>[https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/foia_idw/20090609_idw04.pdf FBI, ''IDW-S System Security Plan'', 2003 Dec 3], pages 58-69 of linked pdf</ref> It uses the Mitre Text and Audio Processing ([[MiTAP]]) system.<ref>[https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/foia_idw/20090609_idw04.pdf FBI, Security Concept of Operations IDW, 2004 11 29], pages 50, 51 of linked pdf</ref>

==See also==
* [[Open Source Intelligence]]

==Notes and Bibliography==

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*{{cite web | author = FBI Information Resources Division (IRD) | title = Investigative Data Warehouse-SECRET (IDW-S) System Security Plan | date = 2003-12-03 | url = https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/foia_idw/20090609_idw04.pdf#page=58 | publisher = Electronic Frontier Foundation |page=58}}
*{{cite web | author = FBI Office of the Program Management Executive | title = Security Concept of Operations (S-CONOPS), Investigative Data Warehouse (IDW) Program | date = 2004-11-29 | url = https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/foia_idw/20090609_idw04.pdf#page=50 | publisher = Electronic Frontier Foundation |page=50}}

==External links==
* https://web.archive.org/web/20051203033617/http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/programs/tides/

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[[Category:DARPA|TIDES]]