RE: [humanmarkup-comment] Brass Tacks Revisited

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Title: Brass Tacks Revisited

With regards to applications to combat terrorism, this requires an application level

use case.   For example, a review of the national Community Oriented Policing (COPS)

programs will reveal requirements for understanding multicultural data sources.   This

may also extend to Neighborhood Watch programs as part of their training and as information

made available online to the NW patrols, monitors, block captains, etc.   These are

not glamorous or particularly exciting, but an essential part of homeland defense. 

As regards "combat" applications, this is a much tougher area to work in.  A

review of extant and new RFPs and RFIs as well as other requests for service

from the security and military services will be appropriate.  There are other

services possible to other information collection points, but the COPS example

is illuminating.

 

Note that neither of these areas will require any particular new theories or

innovative developments.  This is grunt data collection with some analysis.

 

It is important to note that data collected is not always evaluated at the

point of collection so developing discriminators for how data is turned

into useful statistics and where and how such statistics affect policy 

are both important issues for the application developers.   The important

contributions from HumanML will be in the categorizations enabled

and the raw types provided under these.

 

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Brooks [mailto:rexb@starbourne.com]

Joseph, Ranjeeth, Kurt and I have been thinking about coming up with use-case ideas featuring the utility of HumanML as an emerging technology with potential to combat terrorism.