Open source information for export control

This paper presents some preliminary work in the area of export control for nuclear proliferation. The long term goal is to access and analyse data that may relate to the trade of nuclear dual-use items and technologies: this data is available through various open sources. The immediate goal is to work on a table of correspondence between codes that describe, on one side, nuclear items and the nucleardual-use, and, on the other side, goods as they are declared in trade databases. We present a first exploration on the use of language technology to help bridge these two, very different, worlds of terms.