Main Publications

The following is a list of publications that are useful to understand the technology behind the Europe Media Monitor (EMM) family of applications. We invite you to first explore the multilingual EMM applications live. If you want to read more, go to the full list of publications.

Introduction to EMM's multilingual media monitoring applications

• Steinberger Ralf, Bruno Pouliquen & Erik van der Goot (2009). An introduction to the Europe Media Monitor Family of Applications. In: Fredric Gey, Noriko Kando & Jussi Karlgren (eds.): Information Access in a Multilingual World - Proceedings of the SIGIR 2009 Workshop (SIGIR-CLIR'2009), pp. 1-8. Boston, USA. 23 July 2009.

Multilingual event extraction and visualisation

• Tanev Hristo, Vanni Zavarella, Jens Linge, Mijail Kabadjov, Jakub Piskorski, Martin Atkinson & Ralf Steinberger (2009). Exploiting Machine Learning Techniques to Build an Event Extraction System for Portuguese and Spanish. In: linguaMÁTICA Journal:2, pp. 55-66. Available at: http://linguamatica.com/index.php/linguamatica/article/view/37.

Building social networks based on information extraction from the multilingual news

• Pouliquen Bruno, Hristo Tanev & Martin Atkinson (2008). Extracting and Learning Social Networks out of Multilingual News. Proceedings of the social networks and application tools workshop (SocNet-08) pp. 13-16. Skalica, Slovakia, 19-21 September 2008.

Design principles to build highly multilingual applications

• Steinberger Ralf, Bruno Pouliquen & Camelia Ignat (2008). Using language-independent rules to achieve high multilinguality in Text Mining. In: Fogelman-Soulié Françoise, Domenico Perrotta, Jakub Piskorski & Ralf Steinberger (eds.): Mining Massive Data Sets for Security. pp. 217-240. IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Finite-state pattern recognition engine used for some EMM information extraction tasks

• Piskorski Jakub (2007). ExPRESS – Extraction Pattern Recognition Engine and Specification Suite. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop Finite-State Methods and Natural language Processing 2007 (FSMNLP'2007). Potsdam, Germany, 14-16.09.2007.

Geo-tagging: recognition and disambiguation of place names in multilingual text

• Pouliquen Bruno, Marco Kimler, Ralf Steinberger,  Camelia Ignat, Tamara Oellinger, Ken Blackler, Flavio Fuart, Wajdi Zaghouani, Anna Widiger, Ann-Charlotte Forslund, Clive Best (2006). Geocoding multilingual texts: Recognition, Disambiguation and Visualisation. Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2006), pp. 53-58. Genoa, Italy, 24-26 May 2006.

Multilingual quotation recognition (direct speech)

• Pouliquen Bruno, Ralf Steinberger & Clive Best (2007). Automatic Detection of Quotations in Multilingual News. In: Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'2007), pp. 487-492. Borovets, Bulgaria, 27-29.09.2007.

Multilingual multi-lable document categorisation, using the Eurovoc Thesaurus

• Pouliquen Bruno, Steinberger Ralf, Camelia Ignat (2003). Automatic Annotation of Multilingual Text Collections with a Conceptual Thesaurus. In: Proceedings of the Workshop Ontologies and Information Extraction at the Summer School The Semantic Web and Language Technology - Its Potential and Practicalities (EUROLAN'2003). Bucharest, Romania, 28 July - 8 August 2003.

Multilingual named entity recognition: person and organisation names, matching and grounding of name variants

• Pouliquen Bruno & Ralf Steinberger (2009). Automatic Construction of Multilingual Name Dictionaries. In: Cyril Goutte, Nicola Cancedda, Marc Dymetman & George Foster (eds.): Learning Machine Translation. pp. 59-78. MIT Press - Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems Series (NIPS). (Purchase online)

Medical Information System MedISys and PULS - gathering and classifying multilingual Public Health-related news, early warning, medical event extraction

• Steinberger Ralf, Flavio Fuart, Erik van der Goot, Clive Best, Peter von Etter & Roman Yangarber (2008). Text Mining from the Web for Medical Intelligence. In: Fogelman-Soulié Françoise, Domenico Perrotta, Jakub Piskorski & Ralf Steinberger (eds.): Mining Massive Data Sets for Security. pp. 295-310. IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Practicalities (EUROLAN'2003). Bucharest, Romania, 28 July - 8 August 2003.

JRC-Acquis multilingual parallel corpus, sentence-aligned (22 languages)

• Steinberger Ralf, Bruno Pouliquen, Anna Widiger, Camelia Ignat, Tomaž Erjavec, Dan Tufiş, Dániel Varga (2006). The JRC-Acquis: A multilingual aligned parallel corpus with 20+ languages. Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'2006), pp. 2142-2147. Genoa, Italy, 24-26 May 2006.