Joint Research Centre
Institute for Protection and Security of the Citizen

Monitoring regularly the internet is crucial for the global security community to detect emerging threats, such as public health outbreaks and various types of instability. By applying its core scientific competences in computer science and computational linguistics to massive datasets, the Action "Open Source Text Information Mining and Analysis" (OPTIMA) develops open source intelligence and analysis systems that can automatically harvest and analyse a huge amount of information from internet-based sources, thus contributing to enhancing the EU’s crisis management capabilities. More...