IQ -- A Web Mining Tool

A stand-alone tool for monitoring selected sites for user defined study topics is described. The "IQ" tool has been developed by OS Vision to allow Open Source Intelligence analysts to define their areas of interests in a flexible way. IQ is also a front-end analysis tool that can connect to one of several real-time information retrieval systems. The first system is OSVision's proprietary media monitoring system which processes about 80,0000 articles per day from over 20000 international sources in multiple languages. The second system is a stand-alone monitor - IQRepository which can be configured and operated by the user giving full control over which sites to monitor and with what time interval. The third information sources that can be monitored are social media systems like Twitter and Facebook. The stand-alone combination of IQRepository and IQ can also meet in-house security requirements.