TY - GEN
T1 - Analyzing and visualizing gray Web forum structure
AU - Yang, Christopher C.
AU - Ng, Torbun D.
AU - Wang, Jau Hwang
AU - Wei, Chih Ping
AU - Chen, Hsinchun
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Web is a platform for users to search for information to fulfill their information needs but it is also an ideal platform to express personal opinions and comments. A virtual community is formed when a number of members participate in this kind of communication. Nowadays, teenagers are spending extensive amount of time to communicate with strangers in these virtual communities. At the same time, criminals and terrorists are also taking advantages of these virtual communities to recruit members and identify victims. Many Web forum users may not be aware that their participation in these virtual communities have violated the laws in their countries, for example, downloading pirated software or multimedia contents. Police officers cannot combat against this kind of criminal activities using the traditional approaches. We must rely on computing technologies to analyze and visualize the activities within these virtual communities to identify the suspects and extract the active groups. In this work, we introduce the social network analysis technique and information visualization technique for the Gray Web Forum - forum that may threaten public safety.
AB - Web is a platform for users to search for information to fulfill their information needs but it is also an ideal platform to express personal opinions and comments. A virtual community is formed when a number of members participate in this kind of communication. Nowadays, teenagers are spending extensive amount of time to communicate with strangers in these virtual communities. At the same time, criminals and terrorists are also taking advantages of these virtual communities to recruit members and identify victims. Many Web forum users may not be aware that their participation in these virtual communities have violated the laws in their countries, for example, downloading pirated software or multimedia contents. Police officers cannot combat against this kind of criminal activities using the traditional approaches. We must rely on computing technologies to analyze and visualize the activities within these virtual communities to identify the suspects and extract the active groups. In this work, we introduce the social network analysis technique and information visualization technique for the Gray Web Forum - forum that may threaten public safety.
KW - Gray Web forum
KW - Information extraction
KW - Information visualization
KW - Security informatics
KW - Social network analysis
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-71549-8_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-71549-8_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38049141555
SN - 9783540715481
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 21
EP - 33
BT - Intelligence and Security Informatics - Pacific Asia Workshop, PAISI 2007, Proceedings
PB - Springer-Verlag
T2 - 2007 Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics, PAISI 2007
Y2 - 11 April 2007 through 12 April 2007
ER -