An associate constraint network approach to extract multi-lingual information for crime analysis

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1348-1361

  Yang, Christopher C ^a   Li, Kar Wing ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Associate constraint network; Constraint satisfaction problem; Crime analysis; Cross lingual concept space; Cross lingual information retrieval

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ASSOCIATE CONSTRAINT NETWORK; CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS; CRIME ANALYSIS; CROSS-LINGUAL CONCEPT SPACE; CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 34547666975     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2006.04.011     Document Type: Article

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