Content feature enrichment for analyzing trust relationships in web forums

  • Authors:
  • John Piorkowski;Lina Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore;University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

As criminals and terrorist employ social media platforms for planning and executing nefarious activities, understanding the degree of trustworthiness in interactions among actors becomes crucial for detecting their activities. Measuring trust in these environments can benefit analysts who are monitoring web forums to detect criminal or terrorist activities. Previous research proposed a trust model that could enable automatic trust discovery using speech act theory. This paper introduces a new classification method that enriches traditional techniques with contextual information. We conducted experiments to compare the proposed method with traditional approaches. The results show that the proposed method outperforms other alternative methods.