Extended Automated Name Harvesting (eANH)

Overview

Development stage

In development or acquisitionSource: a) Pre-deployment – The use case is in a development or acquisition status.

High-impact designation

Presumed high-impact, determined notSource: b) Presumed high-impact, but determined not high impact

Impact justification

No. The AI outputs do not serve as a principal basis for a decision or action concerning a specific individual or entity that has a legal, material, binding, or similarly significant effect on that individual’s or entity’s civil rights, civil liberties or privacy, equal opportunities, or access to or the ability to apply for critical government resources or services. The use case increases efficiency of tasks associated with the accurate and timely identification, analysis, and review of biographical information needed for adjudication. The AI outputs are suggested aliases and DOBs related to the individual query, which USCIS staff must review to accept, reject, or ignore the suggested information. The AI outputs reduce the amount of adjudicative time spent manually harvesting aliases and DOBs. The use case increases efficiency of tasks associated with reviewing existing records for adjudicating requests for immigration benefits. Completing such adjudications are not dependent on the use case however lack of this tool would significantly increase human processing times and potentially reduce the accuracy of information consulted during the human review process.

Start date

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Withheld from public reporting

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Mission

Topic area

Government Benefits Processing

Operational functions

Document processing and extraction Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

OIT is developing a solution that systematically extracts text from evidence documents, identifies aliases and DOBs from the extracted text.

Expected benefits

Since users no longer need to read through the entire set of case evidence, which is often hundreds of pages, this should decrease case processing time while retaining the same or better performance.

System outputs

Extracted names and DOBs

Technology

AI classification

Natural language processingSource: Natural Language Processing: AI that processes, interprets, and shares information in human language.

System name(s)

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Custom-developed code

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Public source code

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Sourcing

How it was built

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Vendor (as reported)

Not reported

Vendors (standardized)

None on the standard list

A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.

Data and privacy

Involves PII

Not reported

Privacy Impact Assessment

Not reported

Authorization to Operate

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Demographic features

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Training and evaluation data

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Federal Data Catalog

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Governance

0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.

Potential impacts and how they were identified

Not reported