TY - GEN
T1 - The dark web forum portal
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2011
AU - Chen, Hsinchun
AU - Denning, Dorothy
AU - Roberts, Nancy
AU - Larson, Catherine A.
AU - Yu, Ximing
AU - Huang, Chun Neng
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by SOFIA (Smart Objects For Intelligent Applications) project and funded by Tekes (the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation) and the European Commission, and DIEM (Devices and Interoperability Ecosystem) funded by Tekes.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Counter-terrorism, intelligence analysts, and other investigators continue to analyze the Internet presence of terrorists, hate groups, and other extremists through the study of primary sources including terrorists' own websites, videos, chat sites, and Internet forums. Forums and videos are both particularly rich sources of information. Forums discussion sites supporting online conversations capture each conversation in a thread and the ensuing postings are usually time-stamped and attributable to a particular online poster (author). With careful analysis, they can reveal trends in topics and discussions, the sequencing of ideas, and the relationships between posters. Videos gain a global audience when posted to YouTube, but identifying and finding videos relating to a specific interest or topic can be difficult among the tens of millions of available items. The Dark Web Forum Portal was originally constructed to allow the examination, from a broad perspective, of the use of Web forums by terrorist and extremist groups. The Video Portal module has been added to facilitate the study of video as it is used by these groups. Both portals are available to researchers on a request basis. In this paper, we examine the evolution of the Dark Web Forum Portal's system design, share the results of a user evaluation, and provide an overview of the development of the new video portal.
AB - Counter-terrorism, intelligence analysts, and other investigators continue to analyze the Internet presence of terrorists, hate groups, and other extremists through the study of primary sources including terrorists' own websites, videos, chat sites, and Internet forums. Forums and videos are both particularly rich sources of information. Forums discussion sites supporting online conversations capture each conversation in a thread and the ensuing postings are usually time-stamped and attributable to a particular online poster (author). With careful analysis, they can reveal trends in topics and discussions, the sequencing of ideas, and the relationships between posters. Videos gain a global audience when posted to YouTube, but identifying and finding videos relating to a specific interest or topic can be difficult among the tens of millions of available items. The Dark Web Forum Portal was originally constructed to allow the examination, from a broad perspective, of the use of Web forums by terrorist and extremist groups. The Video Portal module has been added to facilitate the study of video as it is used by these groups. Both portals are available to researchers on a request basis. In this paper, we examine the evolution of the Dark Web Forum Portal's system design, share the results of a user evaluation, and provide an overview of the development of the new video portal.
KW - counter-terrorism
KW - social media
KW - text-mining
KW - videos
KW - web-mining
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U2 - 10.1109/ISI.2011.5984042
DO - 10.1109/ISI.2011.5984042
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052904816
SN - 9781457700828
T3 - Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2011
SP - 7
EP - 14
BT - Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2011
Y2 - 10 July 2011 through 12 July 2011
ER -