Publications
Volume 18, Number 1
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High-Density Distributed Sensing for Chemical and Biological Defense A new sensing architecture is being developed for plume-based chemical and biological (CB) threat detection, mapping, and prediction. This effort seeks to provide a novel, affordable, and effective solution to spatially distributed CB detection by working in four key areas. These four areas include the analysis of performance gains offered by distributed sensing; the development of detection algorithms; the construction of an inexpensive sensor prototype; and experimentation with inexpensive, low-power deployment infrastructures. This multipronged approach to inexpensive spatially distributed sensing has led to the creation of a robust CB sensing architecture that offers many significant advantages over traditional approaches. Machine Translation for Government Applications The idea of a mechanical process for converting one human language into another can be traced to a letter written by Rene Descartes in 1629, and after nearly 400 years, this vision has not been fully realized. Machine translation (MT) using digital computers has been a grand challenge for computer scientists, mathematicians, and linguists since the first international conference on MT was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952. Currently, Lincoln Laboratory is achieving success in a highly focused research program that specializes in developing speech translation technology for limited language resource domains and in adapting foreign-language proficiency standards for MT evaluation. Our specialized research program is situated within a general framework for multilingual speech and text processing for government applications. Advocate: A Distributed Architecture for Speech-to-Speech Translation Advocate is a set of communications application programming interfaces and service wrappers that serve as a framework for creating complex and scalable real-time software applications from component processing algorithms. Advocate can be used for a variety of distributed processing applications, but was initially designed to use existing speech processing and machine translation components in the rapid construction of large-scale speech-to-speech translation systems. Many such speech-to-speech translation applications require real-time processing, and Advocate provides this speed with low-latency communication between services. Automated Indications and Warnings from Live Surveillance Data A software system called the Fusion Exploitation Tools (FET) underlies an automated process for alerting intelligence analysts when abnormal activity occurs in an area under their surveillance. The FET consists of algorithms that analyze vehicle and ship traffic. It works in conjunction with the Google Earth geospatial visualization system, presenting the user with a distributed network-centric way of visualizing this information. The FET is unique in that it automatically analyzes live intelligence data streams in near real time. The FET also incorporates direct machine-to-machine requests for additional data collection, providing both enhanced situation awareness and a timely and effective means to control sensor platforms.
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