CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon BBN
Technologies will explore artificial intelligence and machine
learning techniques to develop tools that may enable military
planners to understand how cultural and other factors combine to
cause conflicts.
Raytheon BBN aims to use its machine reading system – a computer
system that reads prose and converts it to language understandable
by artificial intelligence – to analyze the causal factors behind
events and the relationships between them. These factors and
relationships will be represented in semantic graphs, providing
information in ways that both people and computers can understand.
This, in conjunction with other modeling and visualization tools,
may provide military planners a clear view of the potential
repercussions of various courses of action.
"Using artificial intelligence, we can potentially understand
what causes conflict," said David
Lintz, vice president, Raytheon BBN Technologies. "When
military planners understand the root causes, they may be better
able to recommend the best course of action for any given
situation."
The work is being done under an award from the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency's Causal Exploration of Complex
Operational Environments program.
Raytheon BBN Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN).
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electronics, mission systems integration, C5ITM products and
services, sensing, effects, and mission support for customers in
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