NLP as an essential ingredient of effective OSINT frameworks

The immense amount of information that can be collected from open sources have become increasingly important to the academic and business communities over the past two decades. Also national and global security is becoming more and more reliant on rapidly making sense of and managing the relevant intelligence data. The enormous size and complexity of the gathered data require advanced and unique data storage, management, analysis, and visualization technologies. The technologies and applications currently adopted typically involve elements like text mining, natural language processing, and stochastic-based algorithms. Natural language processing, in particular, has been a prominent research topic for many years now. We have conceptualized an analysis framework with a strong focus on various techniques of natural language processing to aggregate, manipulate, and analyze intelligence information.