2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Using NMF for Analyzing War Logs
verfasst von : Dirk Thorleuchter, Dirk Van den Poel
Erschienen in: Future Security
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We investigate a semi-automated identification of technical problems occurred by armed forces weapon systems during mission of war. The proposed methodology is based on a semantic analysis of textual information in reports from soldiers (war logs). Latent semantic indexing (LSI) with non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) as technique from multivariate analysis and linear algebra is used to extract hidden semantic textual patterns from the reports. NMF factorizes the term-by-war log matrix - that consists of weighted term frequencies – into two non-negative matrices. This enables natural parts-based representation of the report information and it leads to an easy evaluation by human experts because human brain also uses parts-based representation. For an improved research and technology planning, the identified technical problems are a valuable source of information. A case study extracts technical problems from military logs of the Afghanistan war. Results are compared to a manual analysis written by journalists of ‘Der Spiegel’.