Overview
- Explains how to exploit public unstructured data on the Web, e.g. Twitter, blogs, chat forums, etc.
- Combines elements from data mining, information retrieval, and natural language processing
- Delivers the first survey of an exciting and growing research area
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science (BRIEFSCOMPUTER)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
The Web has become a rich source of personal information in the last few years. People twitter, blog, and chat online. Current feelings, experiences or latest news are posted. For instance, first hints to disease outbreaks, customer preferences, or political changes could be identified with this data.
Surveillance or early warning systems enable such detection of changes and support humans in getting information on changing situations. However, the variety of data that could be considered for surveillance is immense, ranging from sensor-measured values to collected counts and information extracted from natural language documents.
Denecke’s objective is to introduce the multiple possibilities and facets of surveillance and its applications. She first introduces the task of surveillance and provides an overview on surveillance in various domains. Next, the various information sources that are available and could already be used by surveillance systems are summarized. In the main part of the book, her focus is on unstructured data as a source for surveillance. An overview on existing methods as well as methods to be developed in order to process this kind of data with respect to surveillance is presented. As an example application, she introduces disease surveillance using Web 2.0, including corresponding methods and challenges to be addressed. The book closes with remarks on new possibilities for surveillance gained by recent developments of the Internet and mobile communication, and with an outline of future challenges.Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Event-Driven Surveillance
Book Subtitle: Possibilities and Challenges
Authors: Kerstin Denecke
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28135-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-28134-1Published: 23 February 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-28135-8Published: 21 February 2012
Series ISSN: 2191-5768
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5776
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 76
Topics: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Information Storage and Retrieval, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence