Identification of extremist videos in online video sharing sites

Authors:
Tianjun Fu;Chun-Neng Huang;Hsinchun Chen
Affiliations:
Management Information Systems Department, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ;Management Information Systems Department, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ;Management Information Systems Department, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Venue:
ISI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Intelligence and security informatics
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Web 2.0 has become an effective grassroots communication platform for extremists to promote their ideas, share resources, and communicate among each other. As an important component of Web 2.0, online video sharing sites such as YouTube and Google video have also been utilized by extremist groups to distribute videos. This study presented a framework for identifying extremist videos in online video sharing sites by using user-generated text content such as comments, video descriptions, and titles without downloading the videos. Text features including lexical features, syntactic features and content specific features were first extracted. Then Information Gain was used for feature selection, and Support Vector Machine was deployed for classification. The exploratory experiment showed that our proposed framework is effective for identifying online extremist videos, with the F-measure as high as 82%.