Combining Entity Matching Techniques for Detecting Extremist Behavior on Discussion Boards

  • Authors:
  • Johan Dahlin;Fredrik Johansson;Lisa Kaati;Christian Martenson;Pontus Svenson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ASONAM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Many extremist groups and terrorists use the Web for various purposes such as exchanging and reinforcing their beliefs, making monitoring and analysis of discussion boards an important task for intelligence analysts in order to detect individuals that might pose a threat towards society. In this work we focus on how to automatically analyze discussion boards in an effective manner. More specifically, we propose a method for fusing several alias (entity) matching techniques that can be used to identify authors with multiple aliases. This is one part of a larger system, where the aim is to provide the analyst with a list of potential extremist worth investigating further.