Media-to-Insights: A Multi-Agent AI System for Continuous Media Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting
Ashraf Hatim Elneima, Ozan Yilmaz, Hadi Nasrallah, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny, Hassan Sawaf
Abstract
Continuous monitoring of high-volume media streams requires systems that go beyond keyword alerts to deliver structured, actionable intelligence. We present a multi-agent media monitoring system that processes streaming articles through three stages: (1) a Matching Agent that uses a hybrid keyword-then-semantic matching approach, reducing agent invocations by 2̃0% (2) a batched multi-agent feature extraction, reducing core feature-extraction calls from 7 to 2 per article - a 71% reduction - with bounded quality tradeoffs; and (3) a Report Generation Agent that uses deterministic deduplication and density-based clustering. Four autonomous life-cycle agents manage the evolution of watchers.- Anthology ID:
- 2026.acl-demo.44
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2026
- Address:
- San Diego, California, United States
- Editors:
- Greg Durrett, Ping Jian
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 445–452
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-demo.44/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Ashraf Hatim Elneima, Ozan Yilmaz, Hadi Nasrallah, Sanjika Hewavitharana, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny, and Hassan Sawaf. 2026. Media-to-Insights: A Multi-Agent AI System for Continuous Media Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), pages 445–452, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Media-to-Insights: A Multi-Agent AI System for Continuous Media Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting (Elneima et al., ACL 2026)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-demo.44.pdf