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Intelligent Information Retrieval Tools for Police

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Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2006)

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Intelligent information retrieval tools can help intelligence and security agencies to retrieve and exploit relevant information from unstructured information sources and give them insight into the criminal behavior and networks, in order to fight crime more efficiently and effectively. This article aims at analysing off-the-shelf information extraction tools on their applicability and competency for such applications.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Research Center for Management Informatics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

    Nishant Kumar & Jan Vanthienen

  2. Legal Informatics and Information Retrieval group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

    Jan De Beer & Marie-Francine Moens

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  1. Nishant Kumar
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

    Sharad Mehrotra

  2. MIS Department, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Daniel D. Zeng

  3. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, 85721, AZ, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  4. University of Texas at Dallas,  

    Bhavani Thuraisingham

  5. Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China

    Fei-Yue Wang

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Kumar, N., De Beer, J., Vanthienen, J., Moens, MF. (2006). Intelligent Information Retrieval Tools for Police. In: Mehrotra, S., Zeng, D.D., Chen, H., Thuraisingham, B., Wang, FY. (eds) Intelligence and Security Informatics. ISI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3975. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11760146_80

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11760146_80

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