MiTAP, or Mitre Text and Audio Processing, is a computer system that tries to automatically gather, translate, organize, and present information "for monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and other global events."
[Damianos et al, AI Magazine, Vol 23, No 4] It is also used in the FBI
Investigative Data Warehouse
Investigative Data Warehouse (IDW) is a searchable database operated by the FBI. It was created in 2004. Much of the nature and scope of the database is classified. The database is a centralization of multiple federal and state databases, inclu ...
.
Sources
"''Multiple information sources in multiple languages are automatically captured, filtered, translated, summarized, and categorized''"
It uses 'web sources, electronic mailing lists, newsgroups, news feeds, and audio-video data.'. The audio-video is automatically transcribed into text by the
ViTAP system.
Guts
In 2002 it was reported to have used CyberTrans, the Alembic natural language analyzer, WebSumm summarizer, Lucene indexing, NewsBlaster from Columbia, Brill tagging, SOAP, HTML, NNTP, Perl, Unix scripts, and other tools. Upgrades to various components are planned.
Creators
It was created at the
Mitre Corporation by Damianos and a team of other researchers, with public release in 2001.
Users
It is being used by the FBI as part of their
Investigative Data Warehouse
Investigative Data Warehouse (IDW) is a searchable database operated by the FBI. It was created in 2004. Much of the nature and scope of the database is classified. The database is a centralization of multiple federal and state databases, inclu ...
via
DARPA's TIDES program. According to 2004 FBI email, MiTAP was running at
San Diego State University
San Diego State University (SDSU) is a public research university in San Diego, California. Founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, it is the third-oldest university and southernmost in the 23-member California State University (CSU) system ...
, collecting only English language website news. It mentioned a plan to have FBI run its own version of MiTAP.
It has also been used by people in the
White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800. ...
, the
Department of Homeland Security
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries. Its stated missions involve anti-terr ...
, the Pentagon,
the American Red Cross, the United Nations, and the European Disaster Center
[Damianos et al. AI Magazine, Vol 23, No 4]
Notes
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Mitre Corporation
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