An introduction to the Europe Media Monitor family of applications
Ralf Steinberger, Bruno Pouliquen, Erik van der Goot

TL;DR
The paper introduces the Europe Media Monitor family of applications, which automate multilingual media monitoring across 19 to 50 languages, highlighting their functionalities, design challenges, and benefits.
Contribution
It presents four publicly accessible systems for multilingual media monitoring, addressing design issues and demonstrating the benefits of high multilingual coverage.
Findings
Supports media monitoring in 19 to 50 languages
Provides publicly accessible applications for media analysis
Addresses design challenges of multilingual information processing
Abstract
Most large organizations have dedicated departments that monitor the media to keep up-to-date with relevant developments and to keep an eye on how they are represented in the news. Part of this media monitoring work can be automated. In the European Union with its 23 official languages, it is particularly important to cover media reports in many languages in order to capture the complementary news content published in the different countries. It is also important to be able to access the news content across languages and to merge the extracted information. We present here the four publicly accessible systems of the Europe Media Monitor (EMM) family of applications, which cover between 19 and 50 languages (see http://press.jrc.it/overview.html). We give an overview of their functionality and discuss some of the implications of the fact that they cover quite so many languages. We discuss…
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TopicsWeb Data Mining and Analysis · Data Quality and Management · Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
