Some more pieces of the puzzle. I want to know more about this Starlight program mentioned in the article.
In this example, an analyst has assembled a collection of approximately 3500 intelligence messages, of four different types, describing a (simulated) situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The four message types include human intelligence reports (IIRs), tactical intelligence reports (TACREPs) describing voice radio communications between military units, reports describing movements of military vehicles (REXREPs), and reports describing radar activity (TACELINTs). As shown above, the material has been organized into two separate Starlight databases, or InfoSets, one containing the REXREPs and TACELINTs (presented as a Starlight Discrete View), and the other containing the TACREPs and IIRs (presented as a Concept View). The analyst has also assembled supporting image and map data to provide a visual context for certain aspects of the information under study. The analyst's challenge is to reassemble these elements into a coherent picture of activity in the region, both to characterize the current situation and for predictive purposes.
SPIRE accepts large volumes of unformatted text, determines the dominant topics and relationships within the text, and presents them in a visual format that is natural for the human mind. This approach allows users to rapidly discover hidden information by reading only the pertinent documents.Spire
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