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A Power of Ideas on the Internet (POINT) platform
Award last edited on: 9/24/2020

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : OSD
Total Award Amount
$1,649,903
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
OSD12-LD8
Principal Investigator
Todd Hughes

Company Information

Next Century Corporation

2701 Technology Drive Suite 300
Annapolis Junction, MD 20701
   (443) 545-3100
   N/A
   www.nextcentury.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 02
County: Howard

Phase I

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Phase I year
2013
Phase I Amount
$149,971
Next Century Corporation proposes to develop text analytic technology that crosses the semantic gap at the shallow (but broad) area of event representation. The Event Representation and Structuring of Text (EVEREST) system will search for mappings to a semantic event model, interactively suggesting evidence for the occurrence of whole or partial events for human analysis and reporting. Our semantic targeting approach extends the ideas Open Information Extraction, Event Web, Semantic Web, and the Ozone Widget Framework. We believe that an event-centric approach will be critical for generating narratives that confer meaning upon large, complex, uncertain, and incomplete data sets.

Keywords:
Semantic Web, Ontology, Event, Information Extraction

Phase II

Contract Number: ----------
Start Date: ----    Completed: ----
Phase II year
2017
Phase II Amount
$1,499,932
A Power of Ideas on the Internet (POINT) platform will be developed for the search and discovery of major ideas regarding overseas events that find expression in public online media sites. Through textual analysis of open source content we will trace the emergence and propagation of ideas--as they relate to particular topics and geographic locations. In addition, we will investigate empirical modeling techniques to detect online idea dissemination patterns automatically.