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Data Analysis, Knowledge Discovery, and Information Dissemination

Entity Workspace: An Evidence File That Aids Memory, Inference, and Reading

Eric A. BierContact Information, Edward W. IshakContact Information and Ed ChiContact Information

(1)  Palo Alto Research Center, Inc., 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
(2)  Columbia University, Department of Computer Science, 1214 Amsterdam Ave., 450 CS Bldg, New York, NY 10027, USA
Abstract
An intelligence analyst often needs to keep track of more facts than can be held in human memory. As a result, analysts use a notebook or evidence file to record facts learned so far. In practice, the evidence file is often an electronic document into which text snippets and hand-typed notes are placed. While this kind of evidence file is easy to read and edit, it provides little help for making sense of the captured information. We describe Entity Workspace, a tool designed to be used in place of a traditional evidence file. Entity Workspace combines user interface and entity extraction technologies to build up an explicit model of important entities (people, places, organizations, phone numbers, etc.) and their relationships. Using this model, it helps the analyst find and re-find facts rapidly, notice connections between entities, and identify good documents and entities to explore next.

Contact Information Eric A. Bier
Email: bier@parc.com

Contact Information Edward W. Ishak
Email: ishak@cs.columbia.edu

Contact Information Ed Chi
Email: echi@parc.com
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