Mining User-Generated Content for Security

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A Proposal for a Multilingual Epidemic Surveillance System

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-12630-7_43,
        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},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-12630-7_43}
    }
    
  • 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.