PUBLICATION | 2009A Robust Model to Measure Governance in African Countries Levels of performance of any government do matter in determining the quality of the civil society. The Ibrahim Index of African Governance developed by the Harvard Kennedy School shows how...
PUBLICATION | 2009On Knowledge-poor Methods for Person Name Matching and Lemmatization for Highly Inflectional Languages Web person search is one of the most common activities of Internet users. Recently, a vast amount of work on applying various NLP techniques for person name disambiguation...
PUBLICATION | 2009An Introduction to the Europe Media Monitor Family of Applications 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...
PUBLICATION | 2009Opinion Mining on Newspaper Quotations Opinion mining is the task of extracting from a set of documents opinions expressed by a source on a specified target. This article presents a comparative study on the methods and resources that can be employed...
PUBLICATION | 2009Multilingual Statistical News Summarisation: Preliminary Experiments with English In this paper we present a generic approach for summarising multilingual news clusters such as the ones produced by the Europe Media Monitor (EMM) system. It is generic because...
PUBLICATION | 2009462 Machine Translation Systems for Europe We built 462 machine translation systems for all language pairs of the Acquis Communautaire corpus. We report and analyse the performance of these system, and compare them...
PUBLICATION | 2009Automatic Epidemiological Surveillance from On-line News in MedISys and PULS Information extraction and content analysis is a mature research area with strong potential for real-world applications in the domain of Health Informatics. We focus on the task of tracking news about...
PUBLICATION | 2009Linking News Content Across Languages 1 Introduction Organisations and individuals that need to monitor what the media say about certain issues face an extreme information overload, especially if they are...
PUBLICATION | 2009Internet Surveillance Systems for Early Alerting of Health Threats In order to gather a comprehensive picture of potential epidemic threats, public health authorities increasingly rely on systems that perform ¿Epidemic Intelligence¿ (EI). EI makes use...
PUBLICATION | 2005Need for Research to Support Consumer Confidence in the Growing Organic Food Market This paper investigates the state-of-the-art of organic food with respect to the law (certification, inspection and labelling), the market, the customer, and organic food itself. In spite of the research work carried out...
