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TY - CHAP
T1 - Big Data and Natural Language Processing for Analysing Railway Safety
AU - Syeda, Kanza Noor
AU - Shirazi, Syed Noor Ul Hassan
AU - Naqvi, Syed Asad Ali
AU - Parkinson, Howard J.
AU - Bamford, Gary
PY - 2017/11
Y1 - 2017/11
N2 - In this work, we focus on accident causation for the railway industry by exploiting text analysis approaches mainly Natural Language Processing (NLP). We review and analyse investigation reports of railway accidents in the UK, published by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB), aiming to reveal the presence of entities which are informative of causes and failures such as human, technical and external. We give an overview of a framework based on NLP and machine learning to analyse the raw text from RAIB reports which would assist risk and incident analysis experts to study causal relationship between causes and failurestowards the overall safety in rail industry. The approach can also be generalized to other safety critical domains such as aviation etc.
AB - In this work, we focus on accident causation for the railway industry by exploiting text analysis approaches mainly Natural Language Processing (NLP). We review and analyse investigation reports of railway accidents in the UK, published by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB), aiming to reveal the presence of entities which are informative of causes and failures such as human, technical and external. We give an overview of a framework based on NLP and machine learning to analyse the raw text from RAIB reports which would assist risk and incident analysis experts to study causal relationship between causes and failurestowards the overall safety in rail industry. The approach can also be generalized to other safety critical domains such as aviation etc.
KW - Railway safety, rail, incident analysis, accident causation model
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781522531760
SP - 240
EP - 267
BT - Innovative Applications of Big Data in the Railway Industry
A2 - Kohli, Dr. Shruti
A2 - Kumar, Dr. A.V. Senthil
A2 - Easton, Dr. J.M.
A2 - Roberts, Prof. C.
PB - IGI Global Publishing
ER -