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Uncovering Cybercrimes in Social Media through Natural Language Processing

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  • Julián Ramírez Sánchez
  • Alejandra Campo-Archbold
  • Andrés Zapata Rozo
  • Daniel Díaz-López
  • Javier Pastor-Galindo
  • Félix Gómez Mármol
  • Julián Aponte Díaz
  • Kai Hu

Abstract

Among the myriad of applications of natural language processing (NLP), assisting law enforcement agencies (LEA) in detecting and preventing cybercrimes is one of the most recent and promising ones. The promotion of violence or hate by digital means is considered a cybercrime as it leverages the cyberspace to support illegal activities in the real world. The paper at hand proposes a solution that uses neural network (NN) based NLP to monitor suspicious activities in social networks allowing us to identify and prevent related cybercrimes. An LEA can find similar posts grouped in clusters, then determine their level of polarity, and identify a subset of user accounts that promote violent activities to be reviewed extensively as part of an effort to prevent crimes and specifically hostile social manipulation (HSM). Different experiments were also conducted to prove the feasibility of the proposal.

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  • Julián Ramírez Sánchez & Alejandra Campo-Archbold & Andrés Zapata Rozo & Daniel Díaz-López & Javier Pastor-Galindo & Félix Gómez Mármol & Julián Aponte Díaz & Kai Hu, 2021. "Uncovering Cybercrimes in Social Media through Natural Language Processing," Complexity, Hindawi, vol. 2021, pages 1-15, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:complx:7955637
    DOI: 10.1155/2021/7955637
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