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Software Development Produces a CYMFONY of Information Extraction Tools
AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB Media Source: AFRL Success Stories website
 
About the Technology:
Click to View Full Size ImageWhile traditional Information Extraction (IE) is almost exclusively restricted to indexing based on keywords, research pursued by this team supports a more sophisticated form of IE based on a detailed grammatical analysis of source text. Text documents are processed based on the presence of important entities (e.g., names of people, places, companies, products, brands), relationships between entities (e.g., person “X” is employed by company “Y”), and key events such as the venture capital industry and management changes in companies.
 
Applications:   Military and Commercial Significance:
The software uses a unique hybrid approach, exploiting the best techniques of statistical and grammar-based approaches. The software is domain independent and domain portable (it can be applied to new applications). Cymfony developed the advanced IE engine, InfoXtract, over a period of 5 years. AFRL support, via a number of Air Force Small Business Innovation Research contracts, played a major role in this development. The InfoXtract engine powers the Cymfony commercial product,Cymfony Dashboard, which monitors thousands of media sources and tracks when, where, how, and with whom brands are being discussed. Cymfony Dashboard helps companies target advertising campaigns to get more out of their marketing and public relations budgets.   InfoXtract is being integrated into AFRL’s Intermediate Text Exploitation Advanced Technology demonstration system to provide improved IE capabilities for military users at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center and, potentially, the Joint Warfare Analysis Center. Potential application areas for InfoXtract include monitoring of technical literature to support scientific research and development projects and health care delivery, where the use of IE is investigated to audit and process insurance claims by extracting diagnoses, symptoms, test results, and therapies from patient records, pharmaceutical companies, and information technology companies.

Diverse business applications include investment analysis support, where IE can be critically important to quickly handle enormous numbers of market news reports from news feeds, as well as content summarization for people who receive vast amounts of electronic mail.
 
Industry Contact:   Government Contact:
Cymfony Inc.
125 Walnut St. Suite 205
Watertown, MA 02472

Telephone: (617) 673-6000
Country: USA
   Air Force Research Laboratory

Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7226

Telephone: (937) 255-5579
 


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