Extracting Criminal-Related Events from Arabic Tweets: A Spatio-Temporal Approach

Recently, Twitter as one of social networks has been considered as a rich source of spatio-temporal information and significant revenue for mining data. Event detection from tweets can help to predict more serious real-world events. Such as: criminal events, natural hazards, and the spread of epidemics. Etc. This paper deals with event-based extraction for criminal incidents from Arabic tweets. It presents a framework that supports automated extraction of spatial and temporal information from tweets. The proposed approach is based on combining various indicators, including the names of places and temporal expressions that appear in the tweet message, related tweeting time, and additional locations from the user's profile. The effectiveness of the system was evaluated in term of recall, precision and f-measure.