IARPA DECIPHER
Funds United States teams building multilingual language tools for difficult intelligence vocabulary and specialised terminology.
DECIPHER is a research program administered by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a U.S. agency within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The program operates under IARPA's Emerging Technology Accelerator (ETA) framework and targets a specific failure mode in intelligence analysis: the inability of standard translation and natural language proces…
Capabilities to detect and define specialized language — including acronyms, coded language, and emergent slang — across diverse multilingual text collections for intelligence community applications.
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