News Classification to Notify About Traffic Incidents in a Mexican City

Abstract

The primary objective of this chapter is to analyze the content retrieved from an RSS newspaper report written in the Spanish language and determine if it describes a traffic incident. The real-world case study occurs in a Mexican city with 1.5 million inhabitants, and its purpose is to offer an application to inform in real-time about traffic incidents that happen in the town, gathering its information from the reports published by a local newspaper. However, to do so, the authors first need to classify the articles and ignore those whose content does not imply any kind of road accident.