GROK: Generating Reports On Knowledge Navy SBIR FY2012.2 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2012.2 Topic No.: N122-136 Topic Title: GROK: Generating Reports On Knowledge Proposal No.: N122-136-0704 Firm: Smart Information Flow Technologies, d/b/a SIFT 211 N 1st St. Suite 300 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401-1480 Contact: David McDonald Phone: (781) 718-1964 Web Site: www.sift.info Abstract: The proposed technology: GROK (Generating Reports On Knowledge) combines existing open source research tools to automatically generate reports from a dynamically changing set of documents. GROK presents the generated reports with a novel, uncluttered interface designed to save the analyst time in consuming the knowledge in the report, and finding the next piece of knowledge they need. The approach works by cataloging not only the knowledge it finds in the source documents, but how that knowledge was presented. In essence GROK augments the machine knowledge representation with a catalog of different approaches to express that knowledge. The expression catalog spans the whole corpus, allowing GROK to properly present domain specific vernacular. GROK also automatically builds up a flexible context which the analyst can intuitively manipulate to produce concise reports focused on only the information they need. Benefits: The proposed GROK technology focuses on saving the analyst time. GROK focuses on creating concise reports to reduce the amount of information the analyst has to read. GROK also contains many features to quickly allow the analyst to find conflicting information, how much data of the whole corpus was in the report, and how much data was left out. Beyond just saving the analyst time, GROK provides more accurate, focused responses to questions, ensuring that key facts are not missed, and that the analyst only has to remember and reason with only the relevant knowledge increasing the quality of the analysts decsions. Return