@inproceedings{ee00c27614024a06b869b3c982418b24,
title = "Exploring the dark side of the Web: Collection and analysis of U.S. extremist online forums",
abstract = "Contents in extremist online forums are invaluable data sources for extremism reseach. In this study, we propose a systematic Web mining approach to collecting and monitoring extremist forums. Our proposed approach identifies extremist forums from various resources, addresses practical issues faced by researchers and experts in the extremist forum collection process. Such collection provides a foundation for quantitative forum analysis. Using the proposed approach, we created a collection of 110 U.S. domestic extremist forums containing more than 640,000 documents. The collection building results demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of our approach. Furthermore, the extremist forum collection we created could serve as an invaluable data source to enable a better understanding of the extremism movements.",
author = "Yilu Zhou and Jialun Qin and Guanpi Lai and Edna Reid and Hsinchun Chen",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1007/11760146_67",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "3540344780",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
pages = "621--626",
booktitle = "Intelligence and Security Informatics - IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2006, Proceedings",
note = "IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2006 ; Conference date: 23-05-2006 Through 24-05-2006",
}