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Automated Event Extraction in the Domain of Border Security

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User Centric Media (UCMEDIA 2009)

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This paper gives an overview of an ongoing effort to construct tools for automating the process of extracting structured information about border-security related events from on-line news. The paper describes our overall approach to the problem, the system architecture and event information access and moderation.

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Atkinson, M., Piskorski, J., Tanev, H., van der Goot, E., Yangarber, R., Zavarella, V. (2010). Automated Event Extraction in the Domain of Border Security. In: Daras, P., Ibarra, O.M. (eds) User Centric Media. UCMEDIA 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12630-7_40

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