Briefs

By Sharon Kanon, March 11, 2009, Israel21c.org

... "Since 9/ll, the need to monitor Open Source Intelligence, such as blogs and chat rooms, became apparent," Hadar Himmelman, CEO of MindCite, a data mining intelligence company, tells ISRAEL21c.

"Our pioneering technology gathers a huge amount of information on key topics, integrates it with data from various sources, and presents a coherent visual map with precise, focused information to intelligence officers. The system is multi-lingual. No one else offers a full semantic solution."

Discovering hidden relationships

The system has extra smarts such as artificial intelligence, and neural networks to discover hidden relationships. Semantic trawling connects the dots in the relationship between people, places, objects, events, and ideas and prioritizes the results for clients.

"A semantic data search engine can give better answers," explains Oren Yosifon, MindCite's CTO.

So how does it work? It uses two basic techniques, Yosifon explains. Ontology technology uses knowledge representation - triples - to connect the dots between a subject, a verb, and an object. It also uses inference logic that enables it to detect sentiment and pick out the enemies or bad guys.

Citer, MindCite's intelligent Web Crawler monitors data from Open Source Intelligence (blogs, chats, forums, news releases) on the Web. It also mines the data in closed and open agencies and records and then integrates the two in a visual map that shows relationships.

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