<div dir="ltr">Greetings,<br><br>I am pleased to announce the release of a new call for
papers in the area of security informatics, specifically in text processing. A brief summary is given below:<br><br>=====<br>Crime analysts often use an area’s historical record to visualize past
crimes (e.g., using hot-spot mapping) and predict locations of future
criminal activity. These tasks rarely take advantage of the vast
repository of unstructured text that is freely available through, for
example, news and social media outlets. Such information sources contain
detailed descriptions of past, present, and future events, and recent
work has shown that these descriptions can improve crime prediction
performance. Despite this encouraging result, textual information
remains largely unexploited due to its vast size and unstructured
format. This special issue of Security Informatics will focus on
leveraging text processing techniques (e.g., extraction of events,
facts, locations, times, sentiment, etc.) for crime analysis and
predictive policing.
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<br>We welcome the submission of high-quality, original research on the
following topics (within in the context of crime analysis and predictive
policing):
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<br>* Extraction and geocoding (address resolution) of event locations from unstructured text
<br>* Extraction and normalization of event times from unstructured text
<br>* Extraction of person/group names and sentiment from unstructured text
<br>* Extraction of other useful information from unstructured text
<br>* Processing of “noisy” sources of unstructured text (e.g., Twitter and weblogs)
<br>* Fusion of the above (or other) textual information with criminal incident data
<br>=====<br><br>Please visit the following URL for the official CFP / timeline / etc.:<br><br><a href="http://ptl.sys.virginia.edu/msg8u/cfp_final.pdf">http://ptl.sys.virginia.edu/msg8u/cfp_final.pdf</a><br><br>I
welcome all feedback and questions.<br>
<br>Sincerely,<br><br>Matthew Gerber, Ph.D.<br>Research Assistant Professor<br>Department of Systems and Information Engineering<br>University of Virginia</div>