Improve Interoperability by Formalizing the Natural Language Parts of Military Messages

摘要

Due to the new military operations other than war, the extent of the natural language parts in formalized military messages increases. In order to guarantee further automatic interoperability between different C4ISR systems three problems must be solved. First, the natural language text must be automatically transformed into a formal structure, which represents the meaning of the text. Second, the formal structure must be exchanged between the different C4ISR systems. And third, the representation of the meaning must be automatically inserted into the C4ISR database. In this paper, we show that Information Extraction techniques can be used as a possible solution to the first sub problem. As the formal structure for representing the meaning we use typed feature structures.