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Cultural Affairs Language for Informing Cultural Operations (CALICO)

Cultural Affairs Language for Informing Cultural Operations (CALICO)

CALICO was an US Army Corps of Engineers  analysis of a corpus of humanitarian relief organization documentation intended to reveal what the range of beneficiaries humanitarian relief organizations serve, what they do for them, and how such organizations operate administratively. NSI developed a coding taxonomy for capturing the organizations, beneficiaries, and relief actions discussed in the corpus. NSI used the taxonomy in automated text analysis to reveal associations between organizations and the activities they deliver to various beneficiaries, providing military operators deeper insights into what humanitarian relief organizations do, how they do it, who they serve, and how they can best work with them in humanitarian aid/disaster relief (HADR) operations.

POC: For inquiries regarding this work, please contact Dr. Lawrence A. Kuznar (lkuznar@nsiteam.com)

Project Team: Dr. Lawrence A. Kuznar, Pat Ludwig

Description: CALICO was US Army Corps of Engineers an analysis of a corpus of humanitarian relief organization documentation intended to reveal what the range of beneficiaries humanitarian relief organizations serve, what they do for them, and how such organizations operate administratively. NSI developed a coding taxonomy for capturing the organizations, beneficiaries, and relief actions discussed in the corpus. NSI used the taxonomy in automated text analysis to reveal associations between organizations and the activities they deliver to various beneficiaries, providing military operators deeper insights into what humanitarian relief organizations do, how they do it, who they serve, and how they can best work with them in humanitarian aid/disaster relief (HADR) operations.

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