LEVERAGING INTELLIGENCE RESOURCES (February 2007)
Intelligence agencies today are under tremendous pressure to perform. Escalating terrorist threats from around the world have created national security imperatives to collate, decipher, corroborate, and disseminate accurate intelligence analyses effectively in a timely manner. The problem is that intelligence officers and analysts suffer from information overload. In reality, there are more intelligence-gathering facilities than there are the resources to analyze all the incoming data effectively. Machine translation is a software-based technology that can aid intelligence analysts and linguists in processing the volumes of incoming information whether from print, electronic, audio and video sources. This White Paper discusses how intelligence agency management can apply machine translation as a much-needed support tool that can make linguists and intelligence analysts more effective in producing meaningful and actionable results.