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Cogito Intelligence Platform: a new solution for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Expert System's suite, Cogito Intelligence Platform, was developed especially for Intelligence Analysts who work for government departments and corporate security.
The software is the ideal solution for managing large quantities of data (text and audio), such as: documents (Word, PDF, TXT, etc...), web pages, audio streams (e.g. broadcasts), forums, blogs, twitter, etc... The suite combines Expert System's semantic analysis technology with the best software components (speech analysis, GEO mapping, deductive algorithms, visualization systems, etc…) for intelligence data management.
Expert System's approach has proven itself to be efficient in numerous projects because it employs “non-conventional” (typical and unique to this sector) solutions which can be quickly modified and are easily adaptable to meet specific needs.
Cogito Intelligence Platform was designed and developed by industry experts and can be customized directly by the end user.
In the example, Cogito Intelligence Platform analyzes the news of a terrorist attack in Pakistan; it extracts the principle entities and actions (people, buildings, criminal organizations, etc.) which are found in the text and identifies the main links between them (e.g. the relation between "kill" and the other concepts).
Benefits
Cogito Intelligence Platform offers:
- the possibility to efficiently and automatically process large quantities of data;
- the instruments and flexibility for customization to meet the needs of Intelligence Analysts;
- easy integration with other, specialized software modules, designed by third parties;
- the possibility to acquire data from the most popular data sources (RSS, XML, search engines, etc...) and from the main types of databases;
- a suite of products designed specifically for Intelligence data analysis.
The main features of Cogito Intelligence Platform
Not only is Cogito Intelligence Platform a powerful search engine, but it is also a mix of functions which were designed to offer a real strategic advantage.
Cogito Intelligence Platform includes:
- semantic analysis modules for the automatic classification of multilingual text content;
- a powerful analytical engine which automatically detects alerts and warnings;
- a presentation of the results with a 'customized ranking' feature, which can be personalized by each analyst according to their specific needs;
- instruments for interactive analysis and data correlation;
- a module which automatically organizes entities and relations into a database;
- a tool set for the visualization of results;
- instruments to customize the semantic knowledge component and to define the rules for text mining and classification.
In the example, the search for "weapon" and "Yemen" expands the list of results to a series of documents which contain similar concepts (e.g. "arms"); the analysis window displays the SAO (subject-action/verb-object) relation between the events in which Yemen is the subject.
This is a powerful investigative instrument which is based on the recognition of the logical role of the lexical elements, so that the events can be efficiently identified.
Cogito Intelligence Platform can also be easily integrated with components for:
- data acquisition from the main databases;
- speech analysis;
- GIS map visualization;
- the creation of case method analyses with deductive algorithms and neural networks;
- the integration of data to/from other software systems.
