Software

Indoor Outdoor Viewer: software for situation awareness and collaboration during emergency response. With Nishith Maheshwari  Prototype

Spatiotemporal parser for fuzzy time and location expressions. Our prototype widens the definition of time to include descriptors like “simultaneously”, and “daily”, etc., and the definition of location to include descriptors like “near the end”.  With Wei Zhang and others  Prototype

Metonym Detector for Location: Our prototype determines whether the location entity found in English text represents a physical location (Champagne the region in France) or a metonymic substitution of location word for a person, organization or product (Champagne in a bottle). With Wei Zhang   Prototype

Language Bridge is a multi-lingual location-time-person extractor. It is currently set up for English, Chinese, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, and Russian, but dozens of other languages can be added easily. Screen shot We are working on a timemap dislay to cluster person, location and time.   With Xu Chen

Geolocator software extracts location entities from tweets and text, and attaches geographic coordinates to each location. The Geolocator 3.0 is a core component of our LanguageBridge software.  With Wei Zhang Geolocator 3.0 

METAL = Metaphor Extraction via Targeted Analysis of Language, software to extract metaphors in multi-lingual text. My team’s interface shows contrasts in cultural values about certain topics as reflected in metaphor. In the display, a flag represents the country of origin of a metaphor, and clicking on the flag displays text source.  With Chaitra Radhakrishna and many others   Screen shot

ORA = Organizational Risk Analyzer. It is a meta-network assessment tool developed at the CASOS lab, for which my team contributed the code for geolocation capabilities in 2011.  With many Carnegie Mellon students in computer science   *ORA