Relation Extraction from News Articles (RENA): A Tool for Epidemic
  Surveillance
Jaeff Hong Duong Dung Danielle Hutchinson Zubair Akhtar Rosalie Chen Rebecca Dawson Aditya Joshi Samsung Lim C Raina MacIntyre Deepti Gurdasani
Relation Extraction from News Articles (RENA) is a browser-based tool
designed to extract key entities and their semantic relationships in English
language news articles related to infectious diseases. Constructed using the
React framework, this system presents users with an elegant and user-friendly
interface. It enables users to input a news article and select from a choice of
two models to generate a comprehensive list of relations within the provided
text. As a result, RENA allows real-time parsing of news articles to extract
key information for epidemic surveillance, contributing to EPIWATCH, an
open-source intelligence-based epidemic warning system.