BASIC & APPLIED RESEARCH

In addition to our analyses of regional and cultural conflict drivers, the Center maintains an active program of research into the use of emerging technologies to understand and mitigate conflict arising from clashes in perception. Our current work integrates natural language processing, computational linguistics, and cognitive studies to detect and interpret the use of metaphors across cultures and languages.

Autonomous Dynamic Analysis of Metaphor and Analogy

The ADAMA project is developing automated techniques to identify and analyze the meanings of metaphors in multiple languages, to better understand the similarities and differences of different cultures’ ways of thinking.

Network Intelligence: An Emerging Discipline
In the past, intelligence tools and processes were directed at threats with well understood functions and activities. Today, these tools and processes are directed at threats that are poorly understood, despite high volume and velocity of data. Network Intelligence, a new intelligence discipline, has emerged from this environment.