A Language Modelling approach to linking criminal styles with offender characteristics

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 303-315

  Bache, R ^a   Crestani, F ^b   Canter, D ^c   Youngs, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information Retrieval; Investigative psychology; Language Modelling; Offender profiling

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; BERNOULLI MODEL; INVESTIGATIVE PSYCHOLOGY; LANGUAGE MODELLING; LIMITED DATA; MULTINOMIALS; STRUCTURED DATA;

CRIME; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 74849103623     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2009.10.009     Document Type: Article

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