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Abstract:
In this talk, I will present the CISpaces toolkit, a collaborative virtual space for intelligence analysis. CISpaces has been developed in collaboration with UCLA and Honeywell within the International Technology Alliance programme.
The aim of intelligence analysis is to make sense of information that is often conflicting or incomplete, and to weigh competing hypotheses that may explain a situation. This imposes a high cognitive load on analysts, and there are few automated tools to aid them in their task. CISpaces is an agent-based tool to help analysts in acquiring, evaluating and interpreting information in collaboration with others. Agents assist analysts in reasoning with different types of evidence to identify what happened and why, what is credible, and how to obtain further evidence. Argumentation schemes lie at the heart of the tool, and sense-making agents assist analysts in structuring evidence and identifying plausible hypotheses. A crowdsourcing agent is used to reason about structured information explicitly obtained from groups of contributors, and provenance is used to assess the credibility of hypotheses based on the origins of the supporting information.
Bio:
Alice Toniolo is a postdoctoral researcher in the Computing Science Department at the University of Aberdeen (UK). Her interest is in computational models of argumentation for reasoning and dialogue. She was awarded her PhD in Computing Science by the University of Aberdeen (UK) in 2013.
- Speaker
- Alice Toniolo
- Hosted by
- Adam Wyner
- Venue
- Meston 311