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US develops software for monitoring media articles

Friday, 06 October 2006

us_software A consortium of major universities is developing software that would let the government monitor negative opinions of the United States or its leaders in newspapers and other publications overseas.

The European Journalism Center announced this on Thursday, noting that the project is intended to identify potential threats to the nation.
"American officials have long relied on newspapers and other news sources to track events and opinions here and abroad, a goal that has included the routine translation of articles from many foreign publications and news services", the announcement says.
The researchers, using an grant provided by a research group once affiliated with the CIA, have complied a database of hundreds of articles that it is being used to train a computer to recognize, rank and interpret statements.

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