[Corpora-List] Call for Papers: Special issue of Security Informatics focusing on Text Processing

[Matthew Gerber]

Greetings,

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:

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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.

We welcome the submission of high-quality, original research on the
following topics (within in the context of crime analysis and predictive
policing):

* Extraction and geocoding (address resolution) of event locations from
unstructured text
* Extraction and normalization of event times from unstructured text
* Extraction of person/group names and sentiment from unstructured text
* Extraction of other useful information from unstructured text
* Processing of “noisy” sources of unstructured text (e.g., Twitter and
weblogs)
* Fusion of the above (or other) textual information with criminal incident
data
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Please visit the following URL for the official CFP / timeline / etc.:

http://ptl.sys.virginia.edu/msg8u/cfp_final.pdf

I welcome all feedback and questions.

Sincerely,

Matthew Gerber, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Systems and Information Engineering
University of Virginia
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