SmartBook: AI-Assisted Situation Report Generation for Intelligence Analysts

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Main Authors: Reddy, Revanth Gangi, Lee, Daniel, Fung, Yi R., Nguyen, Khanh Duy, Zeng, Qi, Li, Manling, Wang, Ziqi, Voss, Clare, Ji, Heng
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author Reddy, Revanth Gangi
Lee, Daniel
Fung, Yi R.
Nguyen, Khanh Duy
Zeng, Qi
Li, Manling
Wang, Ziqi
Voss, Clare
Ji, Heng
author_facet Reddy, Revanth Gangi
Lee, Daniel
Fung, Yi R.
Nguyen, Khanh Duy
Zeng, Qi
Li, Manling
Wang, Ziqi
Voss, Clare
Ji, Heng
contents Timely and comprehensive understanding of emerging events is crucial for effective decision-making; automating situation report generation can significantly reduce the time, effort, and cost for intelligence analysts. In this work, we identify intelligence analysts' practices and preferences for AI assistance in situation report generation to guide the design strategies for an effective, trust-building interface that aligns with their thought processes and needs. Next, we introduce SmartBook, an automated framework designed to generate situation reports from large volumes of news data, creating structured reports by automatically discovering event-related strategic questions. These reports include multiple hypotheses (claims), summarized and grounded to sources with factual evidence, to promote in-depth situation understanding. Our comprehensive evaluation of SmartBook, encompassing a user study alongside a content review with an editing study, reveals SmartBook's effectiveness in generating accurate and relevant situation reports. Qualitative evaluations indicate over 80% of questions probe for strategic information, and over 90% of summaries produce tactically useful content, being consistently favored over summaries from a large language model integrated with web search. The editing study reveals that minimal information is removed from the generated text (under 2.5%), suggesting that SmartBook provides analysts with a valuable foundation for situation reports
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spellingShingle SmartBook: AI-Assisted Situation Report Generation for Intelligence Analysts
Reddy, Revanth Gangi
Lee, Daniel
Fung, Yi R.
Nguyen, Khanh Duy
Zeng, Qi
Li, Manling
Wang, Ziqi
Voss, Clare
Ji, Heng
Computation and Language
Timely and comprehensive understanding of emerging events is crucial for effective decision-making; automating situation report generation can significantly reduce the time, effort, and cost for intelligence analysts. In this work, we identify intelligence analysts' practices and preferences for AI assistance in situation report generation to guide the design strategies for an effective, trust-building interface that aligns with their thought processes and needs. Next, we introduce SmartBook, an automated framework designed to generate situation reports from large volumes of news data, creating structured reports by automatically discovering event-related strategic questions. These reports include multiple hypotheses (claims), summarized and grounded to sources with factual evidence, to promote in-depth situation understanding. Our comprehensive evaluation of SmartBook, encompassing a user study alongside a content review with an editing study, reveals SmartBook's effectiveness in generating accurate and relevant situation reports. Qualitative evaluations indicate over 80% of questions probe for strategic information, and over 90% of summaries produce tactically useful content, being consistently favored over summaries from a large language model integrated with web search. The editing study reveals that minimal information is removed from the generated text (under 2.5%), suggesting that SmartBook provides analysts with a valuable foundation for situation reports
title SmartBook: AI-Assisted Situation Report Generation for Intelligence Analysts
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14337