12 July 2006
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Federal Intelligent Document Understanding Laboratory of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
http://cendi.dtic.mil/minutes/pa_0796.html
Optical Scanning Technologies and ProjectsGary Craig, Director of the Federal Intelligent Document Understanding Laboratory (FIDUL), described the origins of the organization and the research it conducts. FIDUL grew out of the Office of R&D at the CIA. ORD had the same problems as other R&D units -- problems transferring the results of R&D into tangible benefits. The emphasis at FIDUL is on technical assessment programs, including usability testing, forming partnerships, and end user involvement. FIDUL has done research on the OCR process including end to end systems. Foreign language capabilities are emphasized because of their importance to the intelligence community.
http://john.cs.olemiss.edu/~rice/resume.html
Served on the Board of Advisors of the Federal Intelligent Document Understanding Laboratory of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
LOCATION:
Federal Intelligent Document Understanding Lab
Tysons International Plaza II
1921 Gallows Road
Vienna, VA 22182
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http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/X/X96/X96-1010.pdf
This material has been reviewed by the CIA. That review neither constitutes CIA authentication of information nor implies CIA endorsement of the author's views.The Demonstration Projects
ADEPT
The Advanced Data Extraction and Preparation via Tipster (ADEPT) Program is a demonstration project aimed at alleviating problems currently being faced by the Office of Information Resources (OIR). OIR has been chartered to implement enterprise-wide systems to collect, archive, distribute, and manage information obtained from unclassified data sources typically called "Open Sources" [5].
CANIS
The Cable Abstracting and Indexing System Program is aimed at providing assistance to government analysts in indexing and abstracting their cable traffic. The goal of the project is to reduce the amount of manual time that an analyst will spend reviewing and processing each cable [6]
FTM
The Free Text Management project is a demonstration system that will be located in the Federal Intelligent Document Understanding Laboratory (FIDUL); the project will include TIPSTER detection and extraction tools integrated with a common document manager
