Dark Web: Exploring and Data Mining the Dark Side of the Web
Online Information Review · 2012
The University of Arizona Artifi cial Intelligence Lab (AI Lab) Dark Web project is a long-term scientifi c research program that aims to study and understand the international terrorism (jihadist) phenomena via a computational, data-centric approach.We aim to collect "ALL" web content generated by international terrorist groups, including web sites, forums, chat rooms, blogs, social networking sites, videos, virtual world, etc.We have developed various multilingual data mining, text mining, and web mining techniques to perform link analysis, content analysis,web metrics (technical sophistication) analysis, sentiment analysis, authorship analysis, and video analysis in our research.The approaches and methods developed in this project contribute to advancing the fi eld of Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI).Such advances will help related stakeholders perform terrorism research and facilitate international security and peace.