Controlled natural language (CNL) has great potential to support human-machine
interaction (HMI) because it provides an information representation that is both human …

As devices proliferate, the ability for us to interact with them in an intuitive and meaningful
way becomes increasingly challenging. In this paper we take the typical home as an …

Social networks foster the development of social sensing to gather data about situations in
the environment. Making sense of this information is, however, a challenge because the …

Recent advances in natural language question-answering systems and context-aware
mobile apps create opportunities for improved sensemaking in a tactical setting. Users …

Social media sources such as Twitter have proven to be a valuable medium for obtaining
real-time information on breaking events, as well as a tool for campaigning. When tweeters …

We describe the design of human-machine conversation experiments that support the
evaluation of our contextaware approach in coalition decision making at or near the network …

In modern military operations the emphasis is on smaller teams and more ad hoc teamwork.
This requires greater agility both in terms of capturing actionable intelligence as well as …

Rapid processing and exploitation of open source information, including social media
sources, in order to shorten decision-making cycles, has emerged as an important issue in …

As devices proliferate, the ability for us to interact with them in an intuitive and meaningful
way becomes increasingly challenging. In this paper we take the typical home as an …

Contextual information extracted from the user task can help to better target retrieval to task-
relevant content. In particular, topical context can be exploited to identify the sub-ject of the …