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Cameo - A General Process Modeling Tool

Cameo provides a powerful, visual representation of a dynamic process and can be used for alerting, knowledge map management, and as a complex data filter.

Counts – A Query Modification Tool

Counts is a knowledge discovery tool used to identify phrases in a data set that indicate new persons, places, or objects entering a study topic.

Data Acquisition Feature

The Data Acquisition feature provides customizable crawlers or robots to automatically pull and index the desired information from file systems, relational databases, and the World Wide Web.

Database Monitor

The Database Monitor tool provides a type of headline or news feed on a particular topic where a results window can be launched against any record. Multiple monitors can be defined where each one is targeted to a particular database.

Export to i2 Analyst's Notebook®

Export to i2 provides a tool to export result sets into a format suitable for use by i2 Analyst's Notebook®.

Filter Search - Simplify Database Maintenance Tasks

Filter Search provides a convenient utility for administering databases and is accessed from the command line.

Geographic Entity Plotting (GeoPlot Entity)

GeoPlot Entity allows the user to identify geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude, decimal degrees, and MGRS) within a specified proximity to a keyword search term in a result set. The user may then associate and icon or symbol, including MilStd 2525B symbols, within the location and automatically plot them on National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) standard mapping products. Product Data Sheet (449k PDF file*)

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Histogram – Viewing Activity Over Time

Histogram is a temporal analysis tool used to plot the results of a search on a bar chart time graph, and allow for the comparison of multiple simultaneous displays to identify temporal patterns in data.

Map Viewer – A Geospatial Viewer

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Matrix - Co-occurrence within Result Sets

Matrix provides a method to quickly determine relationships (co-occurrence) between any two fields, terms, patterns, or alias lists in a given result set.

MiniMap

MiniMap is designed for portal applications. Combined with the Database Monitor, it provides a quick and simple dynamic map of changing geographic data.

Personal Information Manager (PIM)

PIM provides a custom filing system for records, annotations, images, and other information used in the production of intelligence analyses and products.

Query Window – A Query Builder and Manager

Query Window provides an integrated main interface to the program and allows for Full Text Search in an extended Boolean syntax (i.e., proximity, field search, and complex nested queries) to return the most relevant data.

Record Append – Add Personal Records

Record Append provides the means to add records to a personal database through the browser window.

Reextract – Text Extraction on the Fly

Reextract provides the ability to change the fields used in the original extraction process, and re-run the extraction directly from this tool.

Results Window – Gateway to the Pathfinder Tools

Results Window provides a central view and control interface for viewing and refining result sets. Any result set may be refined with additional queries.

Teamwork – A Collaborative Environment

Teamwork automates the process of the "Comparison of Alternative Theses" and is used to encourage collaboration among subject matter experts.

Term Lists – Expediting Analysis

Term Lists provides an easy-to-use way to create queries that account for synonyms and misspellings of terms. These lists may also be used to highlight keywords in order to aid the user in locating items of interest in the text.

Timeline – Tracking Entities Over Time

Timeline allows users to identify actual and relative dates in free text within a specified proximity of a keyword search term so results can be associated with icons or symbols and plotted on a temporal display.

Word Tools – Increasing Query Precision

Word Tools extended Boolean query syntax is used by Pathfinder as a powerful and efficient language for returning high precision result sets. However, this query language requires the analyst to carefully specify the terms or patterns of the search. To ease this task, Pathfinder provides two reference tools (Thesaurus and Word Search) that suggest query terms.

Xtractor – Finding Useful Structure in Unstructured Text

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