Better Extraction from Text Towards Enhanced Retrieval (BETTER)
Current systems and methods often treat extraction problems as “one size fits all” with ontologies defined a priori and used to address a wide range of analyst needs. Additionally, information retrieval systems lack a deep integration with information extraction systems, especially when viewed in light of personalized information extraction. A final hurdle many tools face is the applicability to a single language or problem domain.
The BETTER program aims to develop enhanced methods for personalized, multilingual semantic extraction and retrieval from text. The goal is to provide a user with a system that quickly and accurately extracts complex semantic information, targeted for a specific user, from text. The system then uses this extracted information to discover and triage relevant documents from a large corpus. Toward this end, BETTER will focus on three research areas: 1) information extraction, 2) information retrieval, and 3)human-in-the-loop interaction. BETTER will apply these three research areas across three phrases composed of diverse problem areas and language sets. Increasingly fine-grained information needs will serve to focus the information extraction and retrieval elements throughout each phase, as well as providing a basis for human-in-the-loop interaction.
Contracting Office Address
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
Washington, DC 20511
Primary Point of Contact
Carl Rubino
Program Manager
dni-iarpa-baa-18-05@iarpa.gov
Solicitation Status: CLOSED
Proposers' Day Date: March 29, 2018
BAA Release Date: July 6, 2018
BAA Question Period: July 6, 2018 - August 10, 2018
Proposal Due Date: September 28, 2018
Additional Information
Proposers' Day Briefings
BETTER Proposers' Day (presentation)
Indiana University (presentation)
University of Maryland Baltimore County (presentation)
University of Maryland (presentation)
University of Michigan (presentation)
University of California Irvine (presentation)
University of Delaware (presentation)
University of Texas Austin (presentation)
Modernizing Political Event Data (poster)
New York University ICE (poster)