ASONAM 2010 and OSINT-WM 2010 Invited Talks

Summary form only given. This talk gives an overview of an effort on deploying news event extraction technology for border security intelligence gathering and real-time situation monitoring for Frontex, the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member Stated of the European Union. In particular, a hybrid multilingual event extraction system has been constructed on top of the Europe Media Monitor, a large-scale news monitoring aggregation engine. The hybrid system integrates two existing event extraction engines, namely, NEXUS - developed by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, and PULS - developed by the University of Helsinki. The presentation explains the entire event extraction processing chain and highlights various aspects of information access, moderation and visualization.