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Complex networks can shed light on the hidden patterns that connect terrorist actors
Photo by Peter Forster on Unsplash When discussing about terrorist groups, the public debate is generally centered around their ideology and motives. The main distinctions that are made to classify them indeed regards their motivations and background. Jihadist groups, far-right organizations, anarchists or independentist factions are just some of the distinct labels that are used…
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Measuring without labels: a different approach to information extraction
This is post was originally published on the SpringerOpen blog. Information extraction (IE) is a broad area in both the natural language processing (NLP) and the Web communities. The main goal of IE is to extract useful information from raw documents and webpages. For example, given a product webpage, one might want to extract attributes…