A Proposal for a Multilingual Epidemic Surveillance System

In epidemic surveillance, monitoring numerous languages is an important issue. In this paper we present a system designed to work on French, Spanish and English. The originality of our system is that we use only a few resources to perform our information extraction tasks. Instead of using ontologies, we use structure patterns of newspapers articles. The results on these three languages are encouraging at the preliminary stage and we will present a few examples of interesting experiments in other languages.