Abstract
The context of climate change and the intensification of international trade leads to increasing risks for plant health as well as rapid changes in the latter. To improve the information available to those responsible for managing health risks, the French Epidemiological Plant Health Surveillance Plateform (named Plateforme ESV in french) has set up a global health monitoring system ( named VSI in french) that synthetises items of interest in the public press. This monitoring relays links media and scientific information allowing to identify and/or monitor outbreaks progress in a given geographical area, as well as scientific progress of operational interest. To obtain these goals, the ESV Platform has developed its own monitoring method in which the collecting part is mainly based on web scraping. To process articles, the pipeline is semi-automatic, combining computer codes, information systems and human contributions, leading to their dissemination in newsletters. To date, the articles disseminated by the VSI of the ESV Platform make up about 1% of all the articles collected. This rate of pertinence is linked to the methods used. In the future, one of the challenges of the pipeline will be to improve article collection and sorting process without degrading information quality collected and then disseminated. To do this, the VSI wants to focus on developing operational computing tools, in particular resulting from research activities.