A Text-mining approach for crime tweets in Saudi Arabia: From analysis to prediction

Amal Algefes, Nouf Aldossari, Fatma Masmoudi, Elham Kariri

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Abstract

Social networks have proven to be a massive hub for investigating contextual and individual behavior of people. Most recently micro-blogging sites like Twitter are indicating to researchers that their content can be aggregated and used to effectively predict forecast, and infer outcomes of real-world events. The crime-related tweets analysis research in Saudi Arabia set off with an ultimate goal of gathering a deeper understanding of what kinds of criminal weapons are people frequently talking about. In this paper, we aim at dealing with tweets mentioning different weapons, analyzing them to gather facts such as annual variation of percentage tweets mentioning different weapons, recognizing the impact of events such as the Covid-19 pandemic on crime social discussions. In the following step, we develop a number of classifiers to predict which weapon is mentioned in a tweet. In order to perform our tasks, the Python programming language is used in the majority of the cases.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 7th International Conference on Data Science and Machine Learning Applications, CDMA 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages109-114
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665410144
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event7th International Conference on Data Science and Machine Learning Applications, CDMA 2022 - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Duration: 1 Mar 20223 Mar 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2022 7th International Conference on Data Science and Machine Learning Applications, CDMA 2022

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Data Science and Machine Learning Applications, CDMA 2022
Country/TerritorySaudi Arabia
CityRiyadh
Period1/03/223/03/22

Keywords

  • analysis
  • crime
  • Deep Learning
  • Machine Learning
  • prediction
  • Saudi Arabia
  • text mining
  • Twit-ter

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