The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Innovation Lab is developing an analytical platform called the Repository for Analytics in a Virtualized Environment (RAVEn). RAVEn facilitates large, complex analytical projects to support ICE’s mission to enforce and investigate violations of U.S. criminal, civil, and administrative laws. RAVEn also enables users to develop new tools to analyze trends and isolate criminal patterns as HSI mission needs arise. For more information, please read the DHS/ICE/PIA-055 - Privacy Impact Assessment 055 for the Repository for Analytics in a Virtualized Environment (RAVEn).
RAVEn has incorporated a machine translation system for commercial vendors, Systran, which provides machine learning translation for over 100 different language combinations. Currently, the Innovation Lab has licenses for translating Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Russian, German, Ukrainian, and Filipino to English. Systran can translate plain text, word documents, and PDFs. Both a web-based user interface (UI) and Application Programming Interface (API) endpoints are available. Machine learning is used to increase the efficiency, accuracy, and quality of searching, analyzing, and translating speech.