Raytheon BBN Technologies has
been awarded $1.7 million in funding by the Intelligence Advanced Research
Projects Activity (IARPA) under the Foresight and Understanding from
Scientific Exposition (FUSE) program. This funding follows $5.2 million
awarded in the first phase of the program. Raytheon BBN Technologies is a
wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company RTN.
According to the IARPA website, "the goal of the FUSE program is to develop
automated methods that assist analysts and subject-matter experts in
recognizing emerging technologies in published scientific, technical and
patent literature." According to the solicitation, IARPA envisions a FUSE
system that will:
o Process the world's massive, growing and multilingual collection of
full-text scientific, technical and patent literature.
o Automatically generate, validate and prioritize areas of greatest
importance.
o Offer multilingual capabilities.
"We are exploring theories and models to scan the scientific, technical and
patent literature around the world to detect emerging technical capabilities,"
said Lance Ramshaw, FUSE principal investigator for Raytheon BBN Technologies.
"The solution we envision will recognize trends and connections at a speed and
scale far beyond what has been possible previously."
Under the first phase of the program, Raytheon BBN Technologies developed a
system that uses analytical techniques and algorithms to automatically
recognize related topics in a variety of printed materials and identify areas
that are most likely to develop into significant technical solutions. Under
the new funding, the Raytheon BBN team will extend their techniques with
finer-grained models, applying them to forecast future levels of interest in
particular technologies based on patent applications and grants, and on
scientific papers in multiple languages.
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