In Video Veritas – Verification of Social Media Video Content for the News Industry       Project Description: The digital media revolution is bringing breaking news to online video platforms; and, news organisations delivering information by Web streams and TV broadcast often rely on user-generated recordings of breaking and developing news events shared by […]

Retrieval and Analysis of Heterogeneous Online Content for Terrorist Activity Recognition       Project Description: Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) across Europe face today important challenges in how they identify, gather and interpret terrorist generated content online. The Dark Web presents additional challenges due to its inaccessibility and the fact that undetected material can contribute […]

Knowledge-Based Information Agent with Social Competence and Human Interaction Capabilities           Project Description: KRISTINA’s overall objective is to research and develop technologies for a human-like socially competent and communicative agent that is run on mobile communication devices and that serves for migrants with language and cultural barriers in the host country […]

Promoting and Enhancing Reuse of Information throughout the Content Lifecycle taking account of Evolving Semantics       Project Description: PERICLES aims to address the challenge of ensuring that digital content remains accessible in an environment that is subject to continual change. This can encompass not only technological change, but also changes in semantics, academic […]

Social Media Verification       Project Description: The world of media and communication is currently experiencing enormous disruptions: from one-way communication and word of mouth exchanges, we have moved to bi- or multidirectional communication patterns. No longer can selected few act as gatekeepers, deciding what is communicated to whom and what not. Individuals now […]

Cross-lingual Knowledge Extraction     Project Description: The goal of the XLike project is to develop technology to monitor and aggregate knowledge that is currently spread across mainstream and social media, and to enable cross-lingual services for publishers, media monitoring and business intelligence. The aim is to combine scientific insights from several scientific areas to […]

Large-scale, Cross-lingual Trend Mining Summarization of Real-Time Media Streams       Project description: The goal of this project is to deliver innovative, portable open-source real-time methods for cross-lingual mining and summarisation of large-scale stream media. TrendMiner will achieve this through an inter-disciplinary approach, combining deep linguistic methods from text processing, knowledge-based reasoning from web […]

Building structured event Indexes of large volumes of financial and economic Data for Decision Making     Project description: The goal of the NewsReader project is to process news in four different languages to extract what happened to whom, when and where. Thereby removing duplication, complementing information, registering inconsistencies and keeping track of the original […]

Event Understanding through Multimodal Social Stream Interpretation     Project Description: The main objective of EUMSSI is to develope technologies for identifying and aggregating data presented as unstructured information in sources of very different nature (video, image, audio, speech, text and social context), including both online (e.g., YouTube) and traditional media (e.g. audiovisual repositories). Furthermore […]

Sensing User Generated Input for Improved Media Discovery and Experience       Project Description: SocialSensor will develop a new framework for enabling real-time multimedia indexing and search in the Social Web. The goal is to mine and aggregate user inputs and content over multiple social networking sites. Social Indexing will incorporate information about the […]