TerroGate

Canadian Military's version of Google. Read on:

Canadian defence scientists will unveil today the Google of terror fighting tools: the world's first search engine able to track down sophisticated references to terrorism hidden in vast quantities of written documents and Web pages.
TerroGate, developed by computational linguists at Defence R&D Canada -- Valcartier, in Val-Belair, Que., is software that uses algorithms to search for the vocabulary of terrorism.

Security forces around the world already rely on rudimentary "entity extraction" technology. At least two commercial systems exist -- AeroText, by a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, and ThingFinder, by Inxight Software, Inc., which is used by the U.S. Defense Department and the U.S. army -- but they only annotate generic proper or place names in a document. It's still up to defence analysts to decide if the tagged references point to terrorist activity, Auger said.

In contrast, TerroGate automatically homes in on terror-related concepts and terminology without need for further analyst intervention, and with an accuracy rate of 93 per cent -- a feat the software can accomplish in under three seconds, the scientists said.