Developing a Dark Web Collection and Infrastructure for Computational and Social Sciences
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Authors
Zhang, D.
Zeng, S.
Huang, C-N
Fan, L.
Yu, X.
Dang, Y.
Larson, C.
Denning, D.
Roberts, Nancy C.
Chen, H.
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Incremental forum spidering
Multilingual translation
Social network visualization
Dark Web archive
Multilingual translation
Social network visualization
Dark Web archive
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2010
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2010
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Abstract
In recent years, there have been numerous studies
from a variety of perspectives analyzing the Internet presence of
hate and extremist groups. Yet the websites and forums of
extremist and terrorist groups have long remained an
underutilized resource for terrorism researchers due to their
ephemeral nature and access and analysis problems. The purpose
of the Dark Web archive is to provide a research infrastructure
for use by social scientists, computer and information scientists,
policy and security analysts, and others studying a wide range of
social and organizational phenomena and computational
problems. The Dark Web Forum Portal provides web enabled
access to critical international jihadist and other extremist web
forums. The focus of this paper is on the significant extensions to
previous work including: increasing the scope of data collection,
adding an incremental spidering component for regular data
updates; enhancing the searching and browsing functions;
enhancing multilingual machine-translation for Arabic, French,
German and Russian; and advanced Social Network Analysis. A
case study on identifying active participants is shown at the end.
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Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2010).
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Defense Analysis (DA)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Zhang, D., Zeng, S., Huang, C-N, Fan, L., Yu, X., Dang, Y., Larson, C., Denning, D., Roberts, N., Chen, H., “Developing a Dark Web Collection and Infrastructure for Computational and Social Sciences,” Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2010).
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.