Identification of Military-related Science and Technology

A proof-of-principle demonstration for extracting military-related technologies from a country's total technology publications has been performed, and applied to the Indian science and technology literature^#. The method is general and can be applied to the extraction of any meta-category (e.g., intelligence-relevant technologies, infrastructure-relevant technologies, etc) which is not easily obtained from document clustering or factor analysis. The methodology for identifying relevant literature on military science appears to provide credible results. The volume of literature retrieved will vary depending on how strongly relevant is the desired literature. For the same definitions of ‘military relevant’, the volume of India's literature in the Ei Compendex database was an order of magnitude less than that of the USA or China.