The MULTISENSOR Project - Development of Multimedia Content Integration Technologies for Journalism, Media Monitoring and International Exporting Decision Support.

The rapid development of digital technologies has led to a great increase in the availability of multimedia content. The consumption of such large amounts of content regardless of its reliability and cross-validation can have important consequences on the society and especially on journalism, media monitoring and international investments. In this context, MULTISENSOR has researched and developed tools that provide unified access to multilingual and multicultural economic, news story material across borders, that ensure its context-aware, spatiotemporal, sentiment-oriented and semantic interpretation, and that correlate and summarise the content into a coherent whole. The goal of the MULTISENSOR project is to provide a platform, which allows for an integrated view of heterogeneous resources sensing the world (i.e. sensors), such as international TV, newspapers, radio and social media. Three demonstrators have been developed, indicating the potential of the platform and providing end-user services such as journalism, commercial media monitoring and decision support for SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) internationalisation.