A Proposal for a Multilingual Epidemic Surveillance System

Gaël Lejeune; Mohamed Hatmi; Antoine Doucet; Silja Huttunen; Nadine Lucas

Mining User-Generated Content for Security

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A Proposal for a Multilingual Epidemic Surveillance System

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    author={Ga\`{\i}l Lejeune and Mohamed Hatmi and Antoine Doucet and Silja Huttunen and Nadine Lucas},
    title={A Proposal for a Multilingual Epidemic Surveillance System},
    proceedings={Mining User-Generated Content for Security},
    proceedings_a={MINUCS},
    year={2012},
    month={10},
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    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-12630-7_43}
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Gaël Lejeune
Mohamed Hatmi
Antoine Doucet
Silja Huttunen
Nadine Lucas
Year: 2012
A Proposal for a Multilingual Epidemic Surveillance System
MINUCS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12630-7_43

Gaël Lejeune¹^,*, Mohamed Hatmi¹^,*, Antoine Doucet¹^,*, Silja Huttunen²^,*, Nadine Lucas¹^,*

1: University of Caen
2: University of Helsinki

*Contact email: Gael.Lejeune@info.unicaen.fr, Mohamed.Hatmi@info.unicaen.fr, Antoine.Doucet@info.unicaen.fr, Silja.Huttunen@cs.helsinki.fi, Nadine.Lucas@info.unicaen.fr

Abstract

In epidemic surveillance, monitoring numerous languages is an important issue. In this paper we present a system designed to work on French, Spanish and English. The originality of our system is that we use only a few resources to perform our information extraction tasks. Instead of using ontologies, we use structure patterns of newspapers articles. The results on these three languages are encouraging at the preliminary stage and we will present a few examples of interesting experiments in other languages.

Published: 2012-10-23

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12630-7_43