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Text Mining and Recommender Systems for Predictive Policing

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We present some results from a joint project between HP Labs, Cardiff University and Dyfed Powys Police on predictive policing. Applications of the various techniques from recommender systems and text mining to the problem of crime patterns recognition are demonstrated. Our main idea is to consider crime records for different regions and time period as a corpus of text documents with words being crime types. We apply tools from NLP and text documents classifications to analyse different regions in time and space. We evaluate performance of several measures of similarity for texts and documents clustering algorithms.

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      DocEng '18: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2018
      August 2018
      311 pages
      ISBN:9781450357692
      DOI:10.1145/3209280
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      1. Measure of similarity
      2. TF-IDF
      3. affinity propagation
      4. clustering
      5. silhouette score

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      August 28 - 31, 2018
      NS, Halifax, Canada

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      • (2024)Text mining and machine learning for crime classification: using unstructured narrative court documents in police academicCogent Engineering10.1080/23311916.2024.235985011:1Online publication date: 3-Jun-2024
      • (2022)Exploring Narrative Court Documents for Use in Police Academic Education2022 14th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN)10.1109/CICN56167.2022.10008327(41-45)Online publication date: 4-Dec-2022

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