MiTAP
Encyclopedia
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." It is also used in the FBI Investigative Data Warehouse
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Sources
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
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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
via DARPA's TIDES program
. According to 2004 FBI email, MiTAP was running at San Diego State University
, 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 Whitehouse
, the Department of Homeland Security, the Pentagon, the American Red Cross, the United Nations, and the European Disaster Center
Investigative Data Warehouse
The Investigative Data Warehouse, or 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, including criminal records from various law...
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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
ViTAP
ViTAP is a computer system that automatically can process video and audio news broadcasts in multiple languages. . It can transcribe news broadcasts into text. It is used in the MiTAP system, which is used by many organizations including the FBI....
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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
The Investigative Data Warehouse, or 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, including criminal records from various law...
via DARPA's TIDES program
DARPA TIDES program
TIDES is an ambitious technology development effort, funded by DARPA. It stands for Translingual Information Detection, Extraction and Summarization. It is focused on the automated processing and understanding of a variety of human language data...
. According to 2004 FBI email, MiTAP was running at San Diego State University
San Diego State University
San Diego State University , founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area , and is part of the California State University 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 Whitehouse
Whitehouse
Whitehouse may refer to:People:* Ben Whitehouse, British Landscape painter* Frederick William Whitehouse, , an Australian geologist* Mary Whitehouse, , British christian morality campaigner* Morris H...
, the Department of Homeland Security, the Pentagon, the American Red Cross, the United Nations, and the European Disaster Center