Supporting law enforcement in digital communities through natural language analysis

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Hughes, D., Rayson, P., Walkerdine, J., Lee, K. ORCID: 0000-0002-2730-9150, Greenwood, P., Rashid, A., May-Chahal, C. and Brennan, M., 2008. Supporting law enforcement in digital communities through natural language analysis. In: S.N. Srihari and K. Franke, eds., Computational Forensics: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop, IWCF 2008, Washington DC, United States, 7-8 August 2008. Berlin: Springer, pp. 122-134. ISBN 9783540853022

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85303-9_12

Abstract

Recent years have seen an explosion in the number and scale of digital communities (e.g. peer-to-peer file sharing systems, chat applications and social networking sites). Unfortunately, digital communities are host to significant criminal activity including copyright infringement, identity theft and child sexual abuse. Combating this growing level of crime is problematic due to the ever increasing scale of today’s digital communities. This paper presents an approach to provide automated support for the detection of child sexual abuse related activities in digital communities. Specifically, we analyze the characteristics of child sexual abuse media distribution in P2P file sharing networks and carry out an exploratory study to show that corpus-based natural language analysis may be used to automate the detection of this activity. We then give an overview of how this approach can be extended to police chat and social networking communities.

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Chapter in book

Creators:

Hughes, D., Rayson, P., Walkerdine, J., Lee, K., Greenwood, P., Rashid, A., May-Chahal, C. and Brennan, M.

Publisher:

Springer

Place of Publication:

Berlin

Date:

2008

ISBN:

9783540853022