Document selection for extracting entity and relationship instances of terrorist events

• Main Authors: SUN, Zhen, LIM, Ee Peng, CHANG, Kuiyu, Suryanto, Maggy Anastasia, Gunaratna, Rohan Kumar
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems; Defense and Security Studies; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/848; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1847/viewcontent/Sun2008_Chapter_DocumentSelectionForExtracting.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this chapter, we study the problem of selecting documents so as to extract terrorist event information from a collection of documents. We represent an event by its entity and relation instances. Very often, these entity and relation instances have to be extracted from multiple documents. We there...