Resumen
Maritime collision accidents occur frequently and result in huge damages. Complex collision accidents are especially associated with worse damages. Complex maritime collision accidents involve other types of accidents barring the main accident, such as fire, explosions, capsizes, sinking, and even casualties. When a maritime accident occurs, the maritime accident verdict covers the surveyed facts from the origin of the accident to the consequences. The survey usually reveals the primary cause of the accident; however, complex causes may remain latent. Therefore, this research aims to apply text analytics to maritime verdicts of collision accident cases to identify the latent causes in complex collision accidents. The proposed methods separated the collected corpus into the training dataset and the test dataset. The word propensity database was extracted from the training dataset and applied to sample verdicts of complex maritime collision accidents in the test dataset. The expected results of this research were words that appeared in only complex maritime accidents with a high propensity for additional categories and the relevant context that explains the latent causes that underlie the complexity of the maritime accident. The conclusion suggested that the latent causes derived should be provided to ships to help prevent future complex collision accidents.