Investigative change detection: identifying new topics using lexicon-based search

Kenneth J. Hintz

doi:10.1117/12.479294

14 August 2002 Investigative change detection: identifying new topics using lexicon-based search

Kenneth J. Hintz

Proceedings Volume 4708, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Defense and Law Enforcement; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.479294
Event: AeroSense 2002, 2002, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

In law enforcement there is much textual data which needs to be searched in order to detect new threats. A new methodology which can be applied to this need is the automatic searching of the contents of documents from known sources to construct a lexicon of words used by that source. When analyzing future documents, the occurrence of words which have not been lexiconized are indicative of the introduction of a new topic into the source's lexicon which should be examined in its context by an analyst. A system analogous to this has been built and used to detect Fads and Categories on web sites. Fad refers to the first appearance of a word not in the lexicon; Category refers to the repeated appearance of a Fad word and the exceeding of some frequency or spatial occurrence metric indicating a permanence to the Category.

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Kenneth J. Hintz "Investigative change detection: identifying new topics using lexicon-based search", Proc. SPIE 4708, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Defense and Law Enforcement, (14 August 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.479294

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