Topic analysis of Road safety inspections using latent Dirichlet allocation

SWOV researcher Schermers coauthored the paper 'Topic analysis of Road safety inspections using latent Dirichlet allocation: A case study of roadside safety in Irish main roads' in the journal 'Accident Analysis and Prevention'. 

This paper aims to describe how topic modelling can be effectively used to identify co-occurrence patterns of attributes related to the run-off-road crashes, as well as the corresponding patterns of road safety interventions, as described in RSI (Road Safety Inspections) reports. 

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