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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. Slashdot tags are a joke. by blixel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For as smart as the average /. user is (allegedly anyway), it never ceases to amaze me to read the tags associated to a story. Are /. users incapable of comprehending what a *tag* is for?

    It's supposed to be a way to identify an article based on keywords. It's not an opinion poll. Keywords like "yes", "no", and "duh", are completely irrelevant!

    Every article on /. needs certain "tags" to be given automatically ... ala Wheel of Fortune's vowels and consonants (Wheel of Fortune is a game show, google it if you don't know.)

    We automatically give you - "yes", "no", "maybe", "duh", "slownewsday", "slashdotted", and "fud"

    Search slashdot articles based on tags for "duh" ... uhh... ok ... yeah - that makes sense.

  2. State security, my ass! by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ... I want to see this functionality in Internet search engines!

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    http://outcampaign.org/