Exploring extremism and terrorism on the web: the dark web project

  • Authors:
  • Hsinchun Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence Lab, NSF COPLINK Center, Management Information Systems Department, Eller College of Management, University of Arizo ...

  • Venue:
  • PAISI'07 Proceedings of the 2007 Pacific Asia conference on Intelligence and security informatics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we discuss technical issues regarding intelligence and security informatics (ISI) research to accomplish the critical missions of international security and counter-terrorism. We propose a research framework addressing the technical challenges facing counter-terrorism and crime-fighting applications with a primary focus on the knowledge discovery from databases (KDD) perspective. We also present several Dark Web related case studies for open-source terrorism information collection, analysis, and visualization. Using a web spidering approach, we have developed a large-scale, longitudinal collection of extremist-generated Internet-based multimedia and multilingual contents. We have also developed selected computational link analysis, content analysis, and authorship analysis techniques to analyze the Dark Web collection.