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Cymfony, Inc. is a software and services company based in Newton, MA, delivering information intelligence and analysis solutions for commercial and government customers. Cymfony's InfoXtractTM technology is one of the leading advanced information extraction and analysis solutions for United States government and intelligence agencies. The technology is commercially available to corporate and agency communications professionals through Brand Dashboard, a media intelligence, monitoring and analysis solution.
The basic requirement involves analyzing unstructured text in order to extract entities (names of people, facilities, locations, organizations, etc.), entity attributes (e.g., age, gender), relationships and associations between entities, and events. Information Extraction technology supports this requirement. Other important IE requirements include information fusion (merging all information extracted on a given entity or event, across numerous documents, into a consolidated entity or event profile), and automated porting of the IE technology to new topic domains. These requirements are being addressed over a series of SBIR efforts and enhancements. The technology has evolved from simple entity extraction, to more complex relationship and event extraction.
IE technology developed under the SBIR Program is currently being integrated into an AF application, and will be evaluated by Intelligence analysts in their operational environment. Initial feedback is positive. Anticipated benefits include the ability to do faster analyses, which will reduce our decision cycle time and reduce the chance of surprise; higher-quality Situation Awareness; discovering unknown information relating to potential threats (improved knowledge of threats); and more informed/effective decision-making.
Rohini Srihari
Cymfony, Inc.
Phone: (716) 565-9114
Website: http://www.cymfony.com/
Email: rohini@cymfony.com
