SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- DDR&E and DeVenCI Workshop
- Notice Date
- 8/3/2010
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Other Defense Agencies, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Director of Defense Research and Engineering, 1777 North Kent Street, Suite 9030, Arlington, Virginia, 22209
- ZIP Code
- 22209
- Solicitation Number
- DEVENCI-20100820-W-TIO
- Archive Date
- 9/4/2010
- Point of Contact
- DeVenCI Office,
- E-Mail Address
-
devenci@osd.mil
(devenci@osd.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Operational Goal: Within Office of the Director, Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E), the recently formed Technical Intelligence Office is charged with developing an automated approach to achieving two key capabilities. The first of these is the ability to accurately forecast the trajectory of known technologies (Technology Watch). Second is the ability to discover the next emerging technologies that will impact the Department of Defense (DoD) (Horizon Scanning). Semantic processing and entity disambiguation are key enabling technologies that support both of these capabilities. Semantic processing enables the automated assignment of meaning to words by using context to derive the correct interpretation of a word or phrase. Entity disambiguation enables the linking of multiple references to a given entity by determining if multiple mentions of an entity refer to the same object. The entity in question can be physical (e.g., a person), digital (e.g., a file or image), logical (e.g., a country or organization) or imaginary / hypothetical (e.g., fictional or unconfirmed people or organizations). DDRE/DeVenCI Goal: Promote discovery of tools in the following areas: 1. Semantic Processing a. Feature extraction b. Domain modeling / context awareness (resolving implicit assumptions) c. Sentiment analysis / brand analysis tools d. Concept-based search / document clustering e. Topic detection and tracking f. Word sense disambiguation (semantic disambiguation) g. Natural Language Understanding h. Summarization i. Multilingual and cross-lingual applications of the above 2. Entity Disambiguation a. Entity Extraction / Information Extraction b. Coreference Resolution c. Identity Matching d. Identity Resolution / Deduplication e. Semantic reconciliation f. Data Provenance and Defeasibility in Entity Resolution g. Identification of duplicate digital entities (files, documents, images, etc.) Companies interested in applying for participation in this workshop should contact DeVenCI via e-mail at devenci@osd.mil for an application. Completed applications must be received on or before August 20, 2010. Selected companies will be responsible for their travel and all other expenses associated with participation in this workshop. DeVenCI is a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) activity whose dual goals are to speed DoD adoption of promising new commercial technologies and to encourage broader commercial support of the DoD supply chain. DeVenCI uses workshops, technical expositions, industry outreach, and a publicly available web portal (http://devenci.dtic.mil/) to increase the visibility of DoD needs to commercial companies and technology area experts. It provides timely information to DoD users about emerging technical innovations and pilot opportunities. DeVenCI is a catalyst initiative that does not fund the development of new technologies or businesses. Instead, it focuses on knowledge brokering by encouraging and facilitating the sharing of information to speed application of emerging technology solutions to DoD user needs.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/OSD/DDRE/DEVENCI-20100820-W-TIO/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Defense Venture Catalyst Initiative, 1777 North Kent Street, Suite 9030, Rosslyn, Virginia, 22209, United States
- Zip Code: 22209
- Zip Code: 22209
- Record
- SN02227535-W 20100805/100804000006-ba72e496b6b04293cf1e85fd767ee49b (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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