Computational Modeling of Narratives & Sense-making from Narratives

This research opportunity focuses on understanding world events through two avenues: sensors collecting environmental data and multimedia news descriptions. The challenge is to gather and convert these sources into a common computational representation for natural language description. Research areas include: developing systems for robots/drones to report information via text narratives when bandwidth is limited; analyzing multimedia reporting from multiple sources and modalities to track and report events; and discovering how automated sensor data collection and manual news reporting can work together to build common understanding of shared knowledge. The position is part of the Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) within the Computational and Information Sciences Directorate (CISD).