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Natural Language Processing for State Security

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the your-ipod-can-tell-what-you-mean dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Obviously, computers can't have an opinion. What computers are very good at, though, is scanning through text to deduct human opinions from factual information. This branch of natural-language processing (NLP) is called 'information extraction' and is used for sorting facts and opinions for Homeland Security. Right now, a consortium of three universities is for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which doesn't have enough in-house expertise in NLP. Read more for additional references and a diagram showing how information extraction is used."

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  1. Two Roland junk submissions in two days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wow, thanks for another waste of time. And you people stop linking to his blog in comments, he exists for nothing but ad clicks.

  2. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Your natural language parser will be considered acurate only once it can understand the meaning of Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, until then it is useless.

  3. Information extraction by pk075842 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Information extraction (IE) is a type of information retrieval whose goal is to automatically extract structured or semistructured information from unstructured machine-readable documents. A type of concept extraction that automatically recognizes significant vocabulary items in text documents, such as, names, terms, and expressions.