K-pop and fake facts: from texts to smart alerting for maritime security

Maritime security requires full-time monitoring of the situation, mainly based on technical data such as radar or Automatic Identification System (AIS) but also from Open Source Intelligence like inputs (e.g., newspapers). Some threats to the operational reliability of this maritime surveillance, such as malicious actors, introduce discrepancies between hard and soft data (sensors & texts), either by tweaking their AIS emitters or by emitting false information on pseudo-newspapers. Many techniques exist to identify these pieces of false information, including using knowledge base population techniques to build a structured view of the information. This paper presents a use case for suspect data identification in a maritime setting. The proposed system UMBAR ingests data from sensors and texts, processing them through an information extraction step, in order to feed a Knowledge Base (KB) and finally perform coherence checks between the extracted facts.