9 11 is an example of how important information available in the Internet is to find out “who is in charge of the terrorists”, “what is the reason behind this terrorist attack?”, “is there group likely to launch other attack?”, etc.
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) supports the Genoa project aimed to provide advanced tools and techniques to rapidly analyze information related to a current situation to support better decision making.
Genoa provides knowledge discovery tools to better mine relevant information sources for discovery of patterns in the form of actionable information
As part of the project, MITRE (mitre.org) was tasked to develop text mining-based software system to make it easy for the end user to take the knowledge discovered by the analytics tools and embed it in a concise and useful form in the intelligence product.