Where do I start? Algorithmic strategies to guide intelligence analysts

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wu, Hao ^a,b   Mampaey, Michael ^c   Tatti, Nikolaj ^d   Vreeken, Jilles ^d   Hossain, M Shahriar ^a,b   Ramakrishnan, Naren ^a,b  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

intelligence analysis; maximum entropy; starting points; text mining

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION ANALYSIS; DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS; DOCUMENT COLLECTION; INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS; ITERATIVE REFINEMENT; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; TEXT MINING; USER FEEDBACK;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS;

EID: 84864982549     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2331791.2331794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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