Terror tracker system: a web portal for terrorism research

Abstract:  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-organiza tion 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