Information Awareness Office

The below are from the once lived IAO website. They are the workings of what they do or at least what they once made public. I am curious after reading them if you agree that the list is touching on para research? Or is it just stat research?

Collaboration and sharing over TCP/IP networks across agency boundaries
Large, distributed repositories with dynamic schemas that can be changed interactively by users
Foreign language machine translation and speech recognition
Biometric signatures of humans
Real time learning, pattern matching and anomalous pattern detection
Entity extraction from natural language text
Human network analysis and behavior model building engines
Event prediction and capability development model building engines
Structured argumentation and evidential reasoning
Story telling, change detection, and truth maintenance
Business rules sub-systems for access control and process management
Biologically inspired algorithms for agent control
Other aids for human cognition and human reasoning

web.archive.org...://www.darpa.mil/iao/
web.archive.org...*/www.darpa.mil...

what is Entity extraction from natural language text ?


Is Event prediction and capability development model building engines like the Merlin system once used by CIA?