Web Insights for National Security: Analysing Participative Online Activity to Interpret Crises

Cardenas，Pedro1; Theodoropoulos，Georgios2; Obara，Boguslaw2

10.1109/ICCICC46617.2019.9146090

2019-07-01

978-1-7281-0496-6

Proceedings of 2019 IEEE 18th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, ICCI*CC 2019

235-243

23-25 July 2019

Milan, Italy

Social Media has become the primary communication channel to share feelings and opinions to big audiences. This characteristic is especially important when dealing with a crisis because people use it to send a variety of messages; however, to emphasise or complement what they post, individuals include links to web pages or other web services. Contributing a component to a novel framework for National Security crises analysis and management, this paper focuses on Web Insights as a mechanism that can help to comprehend the nature and state of a crisis. The mechanism analyses web resources and provides insights along three different dimensions: Firstly, the escalation of the crisis over time. Secondly, the interpretation of the information that the main actors have published (Social Networking Services, Information Outlets, Non-Governmental Organisations and Independent Websites). Thirdly, an estimate whether the crisis has turned violent.

Big Data and Web Scraping Crisis Management Hybrid Warfare National Security Natural Language Processing

其他

英语

EI

20204409442681

Natural language processing systems ; Web services ; Websites ; Big data ; Social networking (online)

Military Engineering:404.1 ; Computer Software, Data Handling and Applications:723 ; Data Processing and Image Processing:723.2 ; Legal Aspects:902.3

2-s2.0-85081370203

Scopus

1.Durham University,Dept. of Computer Science,Durham,United Kingdom
2.Southern University of Science and Technology,Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,Shenzhen,China

Cardenas，Pedro,Theodoropoulos，Georgios,Obara，Boguslaw. Web Insights for National Security: Analysing Participative Online Activity to Interpret Crises[C],2019:235-243.