Title :
Terror tracker system: a web portal for terrorism research
Author :
Schumaker, Robert P. ; Chen, Hsinchun ; Wang, Tao ; Wilkerson, Jerod
Author_Institution :
Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ
Abstract :
Terrorism research has fast become one of the more important fields in research of late. Researchers need to be able to quickly make connections from vast storehouses of publicly available resources. The problem of information overload rapidly becomes one of the central challenges to existing information retrieval systems. Commercial search engines are far too generally scoped to be of much assistance to terrorism researchers. We believe that a narrowly focused vertical search engine coupled with several novel information-organization features will dramatically change the current terrorism research landscape. We introduce the Terror Tracker System (TTS) as our answer to addressing many of the current overload problems
Keywords :
digital libraries; information retrieval systems; portals; search engines; terrorism; Terror Tracker System; Web portal; information overload; information retrieval systems; information-organization features; narrowly focused vertical search engine; terrorism research; Australia; Information security; Information systems; Metasearch; Portals; Search engines; Social network services; Speech synthesis; Terrorism; Visualization; news retrieval; security; terrorism;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries, 2005. JCDL '05. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
1-58113-876-8
DOI :
10.1145/1065385.1065520