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Research and development efforts at the Joint Research Centre produced novel and unique software that gathers reports from news portals world-wide in 70 languages, classifies the articles, analyses the news texts by extracting information from them, aggregates the information, issues alerts and produces intuitive visual presentations of the information found.

User-driven Multilingual News Gathering and Aggregation

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has developed a number of news aggregation and analysis systems to support EU institutions and Member State organisations. The main Web Portals NewsBrief and MedISys are publicly accessible and attract up to 1,2 Million hits per day. The system was initially developed as an in-house application for the European Commission’s Directorate General for Communication (DG COMM) to enhance their manual media monitoring and press cutting services. Since then, EMM has become a crucial instrument in the daily work of almost all Commission services and many other public organisations. EMM is the news gathering engine behind a number of applications. EMM monitors the live web, i.e. the part of the web that has ever changing content, such as news sites, discussion sites and publications. All applications are developed, maintained and run by the JRC.

EUROPE MEDIA MONITOR

The public web application NewsBrief shows the hottest topics discussed during the last few minutes and hours across multiple news sources from around the world in 70 languages. Updated every ten minutes, the site groups related news, shows timelines and displays the biggest stories first.

News by subject
NewsBrief categorises all news into hundreds of customer-oriented subject domains and according to the countries mentioned in the articles. Users can opt to see only news falling into specific subjects or concerning countries of their choice.
Users can customise their view of the news by filtering the news by language and by selecting specific news sources and can opt to receive email alerts when certain selected topics arrive. Registered organisations can additionally use the Rapid News Service RNS to further filter the news and to produce their own newsletters by grouping news items and by dragging and dropping them in an easy-to-use interface. With a simple click, email or PDF versions can be sent to defined user groups.

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Publications

• Feb 2017: Publications of the JRC's Europe Media Monitor team
• Dec 12, 2016: The new issue of the EMM Newsletter is out! Click here to download your copy. (6 MB)

Medisys

The Medical Information System MedISys displays only those articles with interest to Public Health and food threats, grouped by disease or disease type. It analyses the news and warns users with automatically generated alerts. TRY IT

Web Intelligence for Medical Emergencies
MedISys is an internet monitoring and analysis system, developed at the JRC with relevant national and international partners, to rapidly identify potential threats to the public health using information from the internet. These threats include the outbreak of Communicable Diseases, risks linked to Chemical and Nuclear accidents and Terrorist Attacks, threats to food i.e. events that could have a widespread impact on the health of the European Community.

MedISys continuously monitors about 900 specialist medical sites plus all the generic EMM news sites i.e. over 20000 RSS feeds and HTML pages sites from 7000 generic news portals and 20 commercial news wires in altogether 70 languages.