The Topic of Terrorism on Yahoo! Answers: Questions, Answers and Users’ Anonymity
September 18, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to explore the use of community question answering sites (CQAs) on the topic of terrorism. Three research questions are investigated: what are the dominant themes reflected in terrorism-related questions? How do answer characteristics vary with question themes? How does users’ anonymity relate to question themes and answer characteristics? Data ...
The Spider-man Behavior Protocol: Exploring both Public and Dark Social Networks for Fake Identity Detection in Terrorism Informatics
September 18, 2023
Hiding true personality behind a facade is one of the basic tricks adopted by humans who live double lives for illegal purposes. In particular terrorists have historically adopted the protocol of a facade behaviour coupled with a second life consisting mainly in illegal activities and their planning. Nowadays a few cases of behaviours that hide ...