Conference paper
Supporting law enforcement in digital communities through natural language analysis
Computational Forensics, Vol.5158, pp.122-134
Springer
Second International Workshop, IWCF 2008 (Washington, DC, USA, 07/08/2008–08/08/2008)
2008
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.
Details
- Title
- Supporting law enforcement in digital communities through natural language analysis
- Authors/Creators
- D. Hughes (Author/Creator) - Lancaster UniversityP. Rayson (Author/Creator) - Lancaster UniversityJ. Walkerdine (Author/Creator) - Lancaster UniversityK. Lee (Author/Creator) - Isis Forensics, Lancaster, UK LA1 9EDP. Greenwood (Author/Creator) - Lancaster UniversityA. Rashid (Author/Creator) - Lancaster UniversityC. May-Chahal (Author/Creator) - Lancaster UniversityM. Brennan (Author/Creator) - Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, London, UK SW1V 2WG
- Publication Details
- Computational Forensics, Vol.5158, pp.122-134
- Conference
- Second International Workshop, IWCF 2008 (Washington, DC, USA, 07/08/2008–08/08/2008)
- Publisher
- Springer
- Identifiers
- 991005543784107891
- Copyright
- © Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Note
- Appears in: Sargur N. Srihari and Katrin Franke (eds), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Computational Forensics, IWCF 2008, Berlin, Springer, pp 122 - 134.
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