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1 Results from the automated media monitoring on Xylella fastidiosa in the MediSys platform Maria Rosaria Mannino EFSA Animal and Plant Health Unit Jens Linge JRC - Text and Data Mining Unit

2 Horizon Scanning - Collaboration with the EC Directorate General Joint Research Centre (JRC) Screening of media and scientific literature Ranking of pests identified as new threats for EU Identify relevant information on pests of concern to EU Improve EU preparedness in addressing Plant Health threats European Conference on Xylella fastidiosa 2017: finding answers to a global problem 2

3 TOOLS AND OUTPUTS MediSys IT platform for media and literature monitoring on 351 pests Monthly newsletter to the attention of EC and EU NPPO + Emerging ones EFSA Plant Health section in MediSys Subscribe to alert European Conference on Xylella fastidiosa 2017: finding answers to a global problem 3

4 THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER Table of content with cross-references Main issues Links to articles, with translations Source and date of publication European Conference on Xylella fastidiosa 2017: finding answers to a global problem 4

5 Xylella fastidiosa news from the media European Conference on Xylella fastidiosa 2017: finding answers to a global problem 5

6 Xylella fastidiosa news from the media 175 articles selected from a pool of more than 3000 (March-October 2017) Main issues in 2017: Progression of the disease in Italy, Spain and France New outbreaks in mainland Spain (Alicante in June 2017) Difficulties to enact control measures Funding for owners of affected groves Scientific results, e.g. concerning resistant varieties Great expectations for amendments to Xylella emergency measures European Conference on Xylella fastidiosa 2017: finding answers to a global problem 6

7 Media Monitoring Importance for Farmers, Citizens, Risk Assessors and Managers Inform decision makers on the impact of their measures European Conference on Xylella fastidiosa 2017: finding answers to a global problem 7

8 Xylella fastidiosa -

9 Xylella fastidiosa -

10 Big screen map -

11 How can you profit? - Website: - Daily alerts => subscribe directly on website - Big screen map: - Monitoring of specific threats or events ask EFSA for help!

12 Joint Research Centre (JRC) Jens Linge Text and Data Mining Unit Serving society Stimulating innovation Supporting legislation

13 Surveillance of news and social media for monitoring of public health threats - retrieves approx. 300k news items and 60M tweets per day - analyses news automatically - multilingual categorization and machine translation - geolocation and country statistics непозната+болест 未知的疾病 یبماری+ناشناس 24/7 surveillance covering: - human health - CBRN threats - food safety - food fraud - animal health - plant health - drugs & new psychoactive substances - medical devices Ebola outbreak in West-Africa 2014 Users: ECDC, EFSA, EMCDDA, EU member states, WHO, G7

14 Scraper Wires etc. Known Entities GeoTagging Alert AlertFilter Grabber Processing Chain WorldWideWeb Single Item Processing per channel, driven by scraper +content +content +entities +content +entities +geo +content +entities +geo +categories +content +entities +geo +categories All items from channel Latest items from channel Category view Category view

15 Food Fraud Monitoring

16 Bee Health Monitoring

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