Collecting Open Source Intelligence via Tailored Information Delivery Systems

Authors

William Sousan, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Qiuming Zhu, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Ryan Nickell, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
William Mahoney, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Peter Hospodka, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2008

Publication Title

Journal of Information Warfare

Volume

7

Issue

2

First Page

1

Last Page

10

Abstract

The Internet offers a plethora of freely available information for possible use in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) operations. However, along with this information come challenges in finding relevant information and overcoming information overload. This paper presents the results of an ongoing research in a Tailored Information Delivery Services (TIDS) system that aids users in retrieving relevant information through various open intelligence sources. The TIDS provides a semantics-based query constructor that operates in a “What You Get is What You Need (WYGIWYN^TM)” fashion and builds ontology based information tagging, theme extractor, and contextual model.

Recommended Citation

Sousan, William; Zhu, Qiuming; Nickell, Ryan; Mahoney, William; and Hospodka, Peter, "Collecting Open Source Intelligence via Tailored Information Delivery Systems" (2008). Computer Science Faculty Publications. 20.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/compscifacpub/20