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Strengthening Homeland Security through Improved Foreign Language Capability
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In: DTIC (2011)
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In this thesis, I examine the best ways to meet post-9/11 language requirements for homeland defense and security. I look at language programs at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the New York Police Department (NYPD), and a federally sponsored initiative called the Language Flagship. I then examine how trained linguists reach native-like proficiency, drawing on existing studies and original research of the interpreter program at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Analysis reveals that motivation, time-on-task, and immersion are the most important individual factors in attaining high-level foreign language proficiency. In addition, organizations which utilize native or heritage speakers, conduct proficiency testing, offer language-related incentives (not to include proficiency pay), and offer regular exposure to foreign language at work, are most successful. While these factors are necessary for an organizations success, they alone are not sufficient. DTRA, NYPD, and FBIs Language Analyst programs successfully utilize foreign language capability for homeland defense and security, although each accomplishes this goal in vastly different ways. This thesis argues that expanded use of native and heritage speakers, more regular and high-level training, and expanded use of immersion, would lead to improved foreign language capability.
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*FOREIGN LANGUAGES; *HOMELAND SECURITY; ANALYSTS; Civil Defense; DHS(DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY); DTRA(DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY); FBI(FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION); HOMELAND DEFENSE; IMMERSION; LANGUAGE; Linguistics; ORGANIZATIONS; POLICE; PROFICIENCY; REQUIREMENTS; SECURITY; SPEECH; TEST AND EVALUATION; THESES; TRAINING
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URL: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA556687 http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA556687
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Special Operations Forces Language and Culture Needs Assessment: Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT)
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In: DTIC (2010)
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Relevance Feedback based on Constrained Clustering: FDU at TREC 09
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In: DTIC (2009)
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BIT at TREC 2009 Faceted Blog Distillation Task
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In: DTIC (2009)
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POSTECH at TREC 2009 Blog Track: Top Stories Identification
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In: DTIC (2009)
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PRIS at 2009 Relevance Feedback track: Experiments in Language Model for Relevance Feedback
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In: DTIC (2009)
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Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation
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In: DTIC (2004)
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The Pragmatics of Taking a Spoken Language System Out of the Laboratory
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In: DTIC (2003)
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Uses of the Diagnostic Rhyme Test (English Version) for Predicting the Effects of Communicators' Linguistic Backgrounds on Voice Communications in English: An Exploratory Study
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In: DTIC (2000)
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The Bible, Truth, and Multilingual OCR Evaluation
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In: DTIC (1998)
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Experiments in Spoken Document Retrieval at CMU
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In: DTIC (1997)
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AMAR: A Computational Model of Autosegmental Phonology
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1993)
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A Practical Methodology for the Evaluation of Spoken Language Systems
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In: DTIC (1992)
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Subject-Based Evaluation Measures for Interactive Spoken Language Systems
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In: DTIC (1992)
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VHDL and Waves Descriptions for a Pseudo-Random Pattern Generator
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1992)
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Robust Processing of Real-World Natural-Language Texts
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1991)
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Very High Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language (VHDL) Syntax and Semantics Summary
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1991)
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Adaptive Natural Language Processing
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1991)
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