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EVALUATING THE EFFICACY OF A TERRORISM QUESTION/ANSWER SYSTEM.

The article evaluates the efficacy of a computerized terrorism question and answer system. The Terrorism Activity Resource Application project examined ways in which chatterbots, robotic computer programs that "talk" to human users, can be used to disseminate terrorism-related information to the gen...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 7; pp. 74 - 80
Main Authors: Schumaker, Robert P., Ying Liu, Ginsburg, Mark, Hsinchun Chen
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2007
Subjects:
Government agencies
Terrorism
Online chat
Information resources
National security
Computer software
United States. Dept. of Homeland Security
United States
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article evaluates the efficacy of a computerized terrorism question and answer system. The Terrorism Activity Resource Application project examined ways in which chatterbots, robotic computer programs that "talk" to human users, can be used to disseminate terrorism-related information to the general public. Through the use of Artificial Linguistic Internet Chat Entity robots, government agencies like the United States Department of Homeland Security can educate the public and answer concerns at a low cost.