We supported the Health and Safety Executive and the Natural Hazards Partnership to undertake exploratory research into the use of text mining to automate the extraction of relevant hazard impact information from event reports.

Text mining could potentially allow resilience researchers to scan local authority and emergency service reports, which are currently in different formats, and identify common themes. This could then be compared with other impact data, resulting in more sophisticated trend analysis and event characterisation.

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First published: 3 April 2017

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