Objectives: As an important element of national security, public health not only functions to
provide adequate and timely medical care but also track, monitor, and control disease …

We present a new, unique and freely available parallel corpus containing European Union
(EU) documents of mostly legal nature. It is available in all 20 official EUanguages, with …

It comprises analyzing audio content of multimedia files and performing a speech to text
transcription thereof automatically by means of an ASR process, and selecting acoustic and …

We present fully functional software that identifies direct speech quotations as part of its
automatic analysis of more than 20,000 news articles per day in currently 11 languages. The …

Abstract Open Source Intelligence can be defined as the retrieval, extraction and analysis of
information from publicly available sources. Each of these three processes is the subject of …

Global medical and epidemic surveillance is an essential function of Public Health agencies,
whose mandate is to protect the public from major health threats. To perform this function …

This paper presents nexus, an event extraction system, developed at the Joint Research
Center of the European Commission utilized for populating violent incident knowledge …

Abstract Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) resources, such as dictionaries and
parallel corpora, are scarce for special domains. Obtaining comparable corpora …

We are presenting a mature text analysis application that relies heavily on multilingual
Named Entity Recognition and Classification (NERC) and cross-lingual information …

A host of tools and techniques are now available for data mining on the Internet. The
explosion in social media usage and people reporting brings a new range of problems …