ABSTRACT
Lockheed Martin has been developing an event coding capability to support HSCB Situation Understanding, Modeling and Simulation. Event coding is the process of ingesting and extracting information from unstructured text (such as news reports) to create annotations of “Who” did “What” to “Whom.” Certain statistical forecasting models use aggregated event counts as model inputs. The events can also be used by intelligence analysts to focus their attention on important articles in newsfeeds, as well as track the general trends or patterns of activity, hostility, etc. between countries, sectors within countries, groups, and even individuals.
