LANGUAGE COMPUTER CORPORATION — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: DTRA143-005

LANGUAGE COMPUTER CORPORATION — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$999,797
Agency
Department of Defense · Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase II
Topic
DTRA143-005
Solicitation
2014.3
NAICS
Place of performance
TX
Period
2017-08-04 → 2019-08-03

Description

In Phase II of KEPLER, we will develop a prototype Knowledge Base (KB) expansion system that employs rich common-sense knowledge resources to perform high-quality scalable inference over a KB. The system will be able to (1) extract event parameters, event constructs, ontological relationships, definitional effects and inferences, and quantitative expectations from open text and structured resources; (2) reason over a production-scale KB using probabilistic soft logic in a modular pipelined reasoning framework; (3) incorporate advanced reasoning modules, such as geo-spatial reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and temporal reasoning; (4) make use of entity and event attributes for unlocking additional information through coreferential reasoning; and (5) apply a natural language question to a probabilistic KB of explicit and inferred facts and enable the user to visualize the evidence for the resulting answers.