Content Collection and Analysis in the Domain of Epidemiology

Abstract

We describe a system that tracks the spread of epidemics by automati- cally extracting content from the Web. The system continuously monitors a large set of news sources, extracts information from new articles, and accumulates the extracted facts in a database in real time. The system provides functionality for vi- sualizing results, as well as alerting capability. We present the current state of the system and discuss challenges and further enhancements.