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ARDA Northeast Regional Research Center (NRRC)

ARDA Northeast Regional Research Center (NRRC). Mark Maybury, Penny Chase, Penny Lehtola, Rick Steinheiser {pc, maybury}@mitre.org, pennyl@nsa.gov, rickser@ucia.gov. December 5, 2001. MITRE. “Extending the Fence Line”. ARDA Revolutionary rather than evolutionary solutions

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ARDA Northeast Regional Research Center (NRRC)

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  1. ARDA Northeast Regional Research Center (NRRC) Mark Maybury, Penny Chase, Penny Lehtola, Rick Steinheiser{pc, maybury}@mitre.org, pennyl@nsa.gov, rickser@ucia.gov December 5, 2001 MITRE

  2. “Extending the Fence Line” • ARDA • Revolutionary rather than evolutionary solutions • Well-defined goals, measurable results, scientific methodology • NRRC Goals • Scientific results with + impact on Intelligence Community (IC) problems • Engage regional experts (.com, .edu, .org) • Reinforce ARDA thrusts • Infuse technology into government workforce • Transfer technology to and from industry

  3. September 2001 Planning Workshop • Brought together representatives from IC, academia, and industry • Built consensus on challenge problems • Defined problems and refined scenarios • Identified data sets & brain stormed evaluation methods • Selected challenge leaders and identified invitees • Addressed logistics and issues for 2002 and future workshops • Intellectual property • Security • Virtual collaboration • Commercialization • Other activities and models for the NRRC

  4. Executive Committee (EC) Members SENIOR GOVERNMENT EXPERTS • Kelcey Allwein, DIA • John Donelan, USGC • Steve Dennis, NSA • Curt Boylls, NSA GOVERNMENT (ex officio) • John Prange, AQUAINT PM • Rick Steinheiser, COTR • Penny Lehtola, ARDA REP PM MITRE (ex officio) • Mark Maybury, NRRC Exec Dir • Penny Chase, NRRC PM INDUSTRY • Joe Marks, MERL • Salim Roukos, IBM • Ralph Weischedel, BBN ACADEMIA • Liz Liddy, Syracuse • Stephen Kosslyn, Harvard • George Cybenko, Dartmouth • Gene Charniak, Brown • Bruce Croft, UMass • George Miller, Princeton • Kathy McKeown, Columbia

  5. Program Committee (PC) Members • Technical Experts/Advisors • Ed Hovy (ISI) • Kathy McKeown (Columbia) • Bruce Croft (UMass) • Ralph Weischedel (BBN) • Senior Government Experts • John Donelan, USGC; Steve Dennis, NSA • John Prange, AQUAINT PM • NRRC ExDir, NRRC PL • Ex Officio: ARDA REP PM, COTR

  6. Summer 2002 Workshop • Focus: Advanced QUestion and Answering for INTelligence (AQUAINT) program • Unsolved Q&A Challenges: • Temporal Analysis - Generating a sequence of events along an evolving timeline; resolving temporal references across a series of sources. • Multiple Perspectives - Handling multiple answers to questions from multiple sources with different (e.g., political, operational) perspectives. • Re-use of accumulated knowledge - Maintaining prior knowledge (questions and answers) to help answer the same question later. • Habitability - How can a question & answer system tell a user what it can do and fail gracefully.

  7. ARDA NRRC Workshop Team Leaders • James Pusteyovsky (Brandeis) – Temporal • Marc Light (MITRE)and Abraham Ittycheriah (IBM) – Reuse • Jan Wiebe (Univ Pitt) – Multiperspectives • Joe Marks (MERL) & Christy Doran (MITRE) - Habitability

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