The need: analyze Digital Text Communications

Digital text communications (SMS, chat, e-mails, etc.) are fast becoming the prevalent source of information for homeland security/law enforcement agencies:
•    US mobile subscribers sent more than 850 billion SMS in 2008 (up from 351 billion in 2007)
•    1 billion chat messages on Facebook per day in 2010
•    2 billion articles posted on GaiaOnline (world’s biggest message board).

The problem: Digital Text Communications are very difficult to understand and to use as actionable intelligence

New and constantly evolving natural languages are widely used in digital text communications, making them opaque to traditional Text Mining technologies.

The solution: Scan & Target’s Text Meaning technology

Scan & Target can automatically:
•    Read incoming digital text message streams in real time and in multiple languages
•    Understand what is being said
•    Detect patterns of interest (drugs traffic, terrorism, etc.)
•    Alert the right people or trigger the appropriate action
all without being queried.

Benefit: bring Context to existing intelligence solutions

Data mining techniques, when applied to digital text communications, can answer valuable questions about messages such as:
•    who sent it
•    when it was sent
•    where it was sent
•    what “words” did the message contain?
But they cannot understand the meaning or context of the messages (the “Why”).

Without the meaning (the “Why”), these traditional techniques will miss new threats and/or fail to respond quickly enough to prevent terrorist or criminal actions.
 
Scan & Target’s Text Meaning technology brings a powerful new tool to existing homeland security intelligence solutions: the power to reveal the meaning hidden within the message.

A turn key solution

Scan & Target proposes a turn key solution including:
•    Hardware (IBM)
•    Text Meaning software
•    Services (training, setup, maintenance).