TY - GEN
T1 - Dark web forums portal
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2009
AU - Yulei, Zhang
AU - Shuo, Zeng
AU - Li, Fan
AU - Yan, Dang
AU - Larson, Catherine A.
AU - Hsinchun, Chen
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - With the advent of Web 2.0, the Web is acting as a platform which enables end-user content generation. As a major type of social media in Web 2.0, Web forums facilitate intensive interactions among participants. International Jihadist groups often use Web forums to promote violence and distribute propaganda materials. These Dark Web forums are heterogeneous and widely distributed. Therefore, how to access and analyze the forum messages and interactions among participants is becoming an issue. This paper presents a general framework for Web forum data integration. Specifically, a Web-based knowledge portal, the Dark Web Forums Portal, is built based on the framework. The portal incorporates the data collected from different international Jihadist forums and provides several important analysis functions, including forum browsing and searching (in single forum and across multiple forums), forum statistics analysis, multilingual translation, and social network visualization. Preliminary results of our user study show that the Dark Web Forums Portal helps users locate information quickly and effectively. Users found the forum statistics analysis, multilingual translation, and social network visualization functions of the portal to be particularly valuable.
AB - With the advent of Web 2.0, the Web is acting as a platform which enables end-user content generation. As a major type of social media in Web 2.0, Web forums facilitate intensive interactions among participants. International Jihadist groups often use Web forums to promote violence and distribute propaganda materials. These Dark Web forums are heterogeneous and widely distributed. Therefore, how to access and analyze the forum messages and interactions among participants is becoming an issue. This paper presents a general framework for Web forum data integration. Specifically, a Web-based knowledge portal, the Dark Web Forums Portal, is built based on the framework. The portal incorporates the data collected from different international Jihadist forums and provides several important analysis functions, including forum browsing and searching (in single forum and across multiple forums), forum statistics analysis, multilingual translation, and social network visualization. Preliminary results of our user study show that the Dark Web Forums Portal helps users locate information quickly and effectively. Users found the forum statistics analysis, multilingual translation, and social network visualization functions of the portal to be particularly valuable.
KW - Dark web forums
KW - Multilingual translation
KW - Social network visualization
KW - Web-based knowledge portal
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U2 - 10.1109/ISI.2009.5137274
DO - 10.1109/ISI.2009.5137274
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70350061920
SN - 9781424441730
T3 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2009
SP - 71
EP - 76
BT - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2009
Y2 - 8 June 2009 through 11 June 2009
ER -