Title
Threat Detection in Tweets with Trigger Patterns and Contextual Cues
Author
Spitters, M.M.
Eendebak, P.T.
Worm, D.T.H.
Bouma, H.
Publication year
2014
Abstract
Many threats in the real world can be related to activities in open sources on the internet. Early detection of threats based on internet information could assist in the prevention of incidents. However, the amount of data in social media, blogs and forums rapidly increases and it is time consuming for security services to monitor all these open sources. Therefore, it is important to have a system that automatically ranks messages based on their threat potential and thereby allows security operators to check these messages more efficiently. In this paper, we present a novel method for detecting threatening messages on Twitter based on trigger keywords and contextual cues. The system was tested on multiple large collections of Dutch tweets. Our experimental results show that our system can successfully analyze messages and recognize threatening content.
Subject
TS - Technical Sciences
Communication & Information ; Physics & Electronics
Defence, Safety and Security
Safety and Security
OSINT
Twitter
Social media
Text mining
Threat detection
MNS - Media & Network Services ; II - Intelligent Imaging
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/jisic.2014.39
TNO identifier
511411
Publisher
IEEE, Piscataway, NJ
Source
IEEE Joint Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, JISIC 2014, 24-26 September 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 216-219
Document type
conference paper