TranspoloSearch - Web-based information extraction for political science
Résumé
This software takes the name of a public person and a period, and retrieve all events available online involving this person during this period. It first perform a web search using various engines, then retrieves the corresponding Web pages, performs NER (named entity recognition), uses these entities to cluster the articles, and considers each cluster as the description of a specific event. It is designed to handle Web pages in French, but should work also for English.
