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Dec 13, 2024

CARD: Content-Aware Recommendation of Data

We have been working with LAS to develop CARD, a front-end for our recommendation pipeline ORBS. ORBS is the culmination of our work with LAS in previous years, and with…

Dec 2, 2024

Improving Text-Guided Image Search 

Sometimes you have an image and are looking for similar images. Sometimes that search doesn’t work perfectly. Maybe you don’t have exactly the right image to start with, or maybe…
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Nov 25, 2024

ECHOLAB: Leveraging LLMs to Boost Speech-to-Text Accuracy in Challenging Audio Environments

Speech-to-text (STT) transcriptions are crucial to audio analysis, forming a foundation for retrieval, prioritization, and sensemaking activities within the analyst workflow. The accuracy of STT output is essential; without it,…
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Nov 25, 2024

5 Telltale Signs That a Photo Is AI-generated

While diffusion models, or artificial intelligence systems that create images from text prompts, are a simple way to make realistic-looking images, they still have a long way to go before…

Nov 25, 2024

Automated Workflows to Triage Technical Intelligence

Introduction In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, analysts face the daunting task of sifting through large volumes of unstructured data to identify critical trends and insights. Our team recently undertook…
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Nov 25, 2024

Findings from the 2024 Data Augmentation for Event Extraction (DAFEE) Project

Project Overview Identifying events and the key entities, locations and features that characterize those events can be a useful tool in intelligence analysis, as it supports an intelligence analyst’s ability…
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Nov 25, 2024

Conformal prediction for knowledge graphs

Introduction In a world overflowing with data, knowledge graphs have emerged as powerful tools for organizing and retrieving meaningful information. A knowledge graph (KG) is a graph-based representation of information…
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Nov 25, 2024

Survey of Metrics for Cognitive Load in Intelligence Community Settings

What is Cognitive Load and Why Does it Matter? Cognitive load, understood as the demand placed by a task on the working memory of a person, is an important determinant…
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Nov 25, 2024

2024 LAS – NC State Computer Science Senior Design Teams 

Since 2016, researchers at the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) have sponsored approximately 25 senior design projects through the NC State Computer Science Senior Design Center, including four in 2024.…
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Nov 25, 2024

Internet Routing Integrity 

Background Picture this: You’re settling in for some routine online banking, coffee in hand, ready to pay your monthly bills. The website looks exactly like your bank’s—same logo, same layout,…