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Re: SUO: "Intelligence Production Process Ontologies"




At 11:06 PM -0400 5/2/02, jim.s3@juno.com wrote:
>Can you tell us more about your  "Intelligence Production Process?"

This is a very early stage effort to look at ways in which we can 
model the human mediated process of transforming data (in whatever 
form -- text, images, video, etc) into information that can be used 
by a decision maker.

I'm doing this in support of a US Govt. Program called AQUAINT (see 
http://www.ic-arda.org/InfoExploit/aquaint), and at this stage am 
mostly just gathering data about any work that has been done in the 
general area.

The nominal objective is to develop an "Intelligence Production 
Process Ontology" (IPPO) that can be used to provide a framework in 
which the design and evaluation of advanced Question Answering 
systems can be embedded. A key issue for such systems is the notion 
of "context" and I believe that an IPPO would allow us to talk about 
context in a meaningful and useful way.

I suspect the details of what we're trying to do are outside the 
scope of this forum, but I'd certainly be interested in a general 
discussion about such processes. I was actually hoping that someone 
was further along in their thinking about this than I am :-)

Thanks, Richard

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