Enhanced Streaming Text Summarization (ESTESA) Navy SBIR FY2012.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2012.1 Topic No.: N121-078 Topic Title: Enhanced Streaming Text Summarization (ESTESA) Proposal No.: N121-078-0854 Firm: Language Computer Corporation 2435 N. Central Expressway Suite 1200 Richardson, Texas 75080-2747 Contact: Finley Lacatusu Phone: (972) 231-0056 Web Site: www.languagecomputer.com Abstract: In this SBIR effort, called Enhanced Streaming TExt SummArization (ESTESA), Language Computer Corporation (LCC) will generate summaries of streaming texts by relying on an elaborate topic representation, called topic themes, that will be used to design and implement a novel probabilistic generative model of ranking and extracting sentences coherent with the topic. The topic themes will also inform two textual inference systems that will select novel sentences for the update summary: a textual entailment and a textual contradiction system. The textual inference system shall be further enhanced by a temporal inference model that will rely on event chronologies. Benefits: Over the past 15 years, Language Computer Corporation (LCC) has been a pioneer in developing innovative solutions designed to help users unlock value from text corpora. We believe there is a growing need for systems capable of providing a wide range text search, summarization and exploitation of unstructured texts, blogs, tweets, and other social media communications within multiple sectors of the U.S. government, including the Departments of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the national intelligence organizations overseen by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. We anticipate that the prototype update summarization system developed as part of ESTESA will not only enhance the quality of LCC's GISTexter and open-domain search and extraction tools, but will also serve as an ideal beacon for capturing the information cascades evolving in social media. Transitioning our technology into multiple sectors of the US Government will support incident responders, incident managers, intelligence preparation of the battlefield, and event detection / response collaboration. To accomplish our objectives, we will solicit our current contacts within the Intelligence and Homeland Security communities to demonstrate and tailor this capability to their needs. For DoD customers, we will work through our strategic partners to demonstrate and integrate conceptual visualization into their current and future systems. As fully location-tagging and spatial reasoning capabilities become more robust, we expect the quality and coverage of our applications will drive demand for LCC's products in the civilian commercial sector as well. Return