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An Annotated Corpus of Crime-Related Portuguese Documents for NLP and Machine Learning Processing

datacite.subject.fosCiências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
datacite.subject.fosCiências Naturais::Ciências da Computação e da Informação
datacite.subject.sdg08:Trabalho Digno e Crescimento Económico
datacite.subject.sdg09:Indústria, Inovação e Infraestruturas
datacite.subject.sdg10:Reduzir as Desigualdades
dc.contributor.authorCarnaz, Gonçalo
dc.contributor.authorAntunes, Mário
dc.contributor.authorNogueira, Vitor Beires
dc.date.accessioned2026-05-12T13:46:09Z
dc.date.available2026-05-12T13:46:09Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-26
dc.description.abstractCriminal investigations collect and analyze the facts related to a crime, from which the investigators can deduce evidence to be used in court. It is a multidisciplinary and applied science, which includes interviews, interrogations, evidence collection, preservation of the chain of custody, and other methods and techniques of investigation. These techniques produce both digital and paper documents that have to be carefully analyzed to identify correlations and interactions among suspects, places, license plates, and other entities that are mentioned in the investigation. The computerized processing of these documents is a helping hand to the criminal investigation, as it allows the automatic identification of entities and their relations, being some of which difficult to identify manually. There exists a wide set of dedicated tools, but they have a major limitation: they are unable to process criminal reports in the Portuguese language, as an annotated corpus for that purpose does not exist. This paper presents an annotated corpus, composed of a collection of anonymized crime-related documents, which were extracted from official and open sources. The dataset was produced as the result of an exploratory initiative to collect crime-related data from websites and conditioned-access police reports. The dataset was evaluated and a mean precision of 0.808, recall of 0.722, and F1-score of 0.733 were obtained with the classification of the annotated named-entities present in the crime-related documents. This corpus can be employed to benchmark Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods and tools to detect and correlate entities in the documents. Some examples are sentence detection, named-entity recognition, and identification of terms related to the criminal domain.eng
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding The APC was financed by Polytechnic of Leiria. Acknowledgments The authors acknowledge the facilities provided by Polytechnic of Leiria and University of Évora, for the support to this research.
dc.identifier.citationCarnaz, G.; Antunes, M.; Nogueira, V. An Annotated Corpus of Crime-Related Portuguese Documents for NLP and Machine Learning Processing. Data 2021, 6, 71. https://doi.org/10.3390/data6070071.
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/data6070071
dc.identifier.eissn2306-5729
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/16273
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherMDPI
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectcrime-related documents
dc.subjectcybersecurity
dc.subjectcriminal investigation
dc.subjectPortuguese language corpus
dc.subjectnatural language processing
dc.subject5W1H
dc.titleAn Annotated Corpus of Crime-Related Portuguese Documents for NLP and Machine Learning Processingeng
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.referenceshttps://github.com/goncalofcarnaz/Annotated-Corpus-of-Criminal-Related-Portuguese- Documents
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Criminal investigations collect and analyze the facts related to a crime, from which the investigators can deduce evidence to be used in court. It is a multidisciplinary and applied science, which includes interviews, interrogations, evidence collection, preservation of the chain of custody, and other methods and techniques of investigation. These techniques produce both digital and paper documents that have to be carefully analyzed to identify correlations and interactions among suspects, places, license plates, and other entities that are mentioned in the investigation. The computerized processing of these documents is a helping hand to the criminal investigation, as it allows the automatic identification of entities and their relations, being some of which difficult to identify manually. There exists a wide set of dedicated tools, but they have a major limitation: they are unable to process criminal reports in the Portuguese language, as an annotated corpus for that purpose does not exist. This paper presents an annotated corpus, composed of a collection of anonymized crime-related documents, which were extracted from official and open sources. The dataset was produced as the result of an exploratory initiative to collect crime-related data from websites and conditioned-access police reports. The dataset was evaluated and a mean precision of 0.808, recall of 0.722, and F1-score of 0.733 were obtained with the classification of the annotated named-entities present in the crime-related documents. This corpus can be employed to benchmark Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods and tools to detect and correlate entities in the documents. Some examples are sentence detection, named-entity recognition, and identification of terms related to the criminal domain.
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