Assessing Claims in Open Source Documents: Detecting, Extracting, and Analyzing Statements

This research opportunity is part of the Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) focusing on understanding events taking place around the world as described in alternative ways in online information sources. The project examines multimedia (texts, audio, video) to detect, extract, and attribute claims reported in different news sources to understand what is actually happening on the ground. The research specifically focuses on identifying 'who said what to whom', along with crucial background attributes such as claimer, claim objects, stances expressed in claims, and relevant knowledge from other sources. This research is part of a larger collaborative project involving multilingual, multimodal semantic analysis for information foraging and conversational search. The ARL-RAP is designed to significantly increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry in scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Army, supporting the development of technologies for future Army operational needs.