Exploiting twitter for border security-related intelligence gathering

Proceedings - 2013 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, EISIC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 239-246

  Piskorski, Jakub ^a   Tanev, Hristo ^b   Balahur, Alexandra ^b  

^a Frontex Warsaw ^*  (Poland)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

africa; border intelligence; early warning; event extraction; immigration; sentiment analysis; situation awareness; social media; twitter

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BORDER INTELLIGENCE; EARLY WARNING; EVENT EXTRACTION; IMMIGRATION; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SITUATION AWARENESS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84892157824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EISIC.2013.63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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