CRI: CRD - Developing a Dark Web Collection and Infrastructure for Computational and Social Sciences

世界各地不同学科的研究人员正在努力开发了解极端主义团体、恐怖主义和恐怖分子的手段：他们对世界的影响；他们如何沟通、组织和宣传自己；他们如何获得资金；他们和谁有联系，为什么联系。该项目旨在创建一个大型档案，称为？暗网档案？还有一个研究基础设施，供计算机和信息科学家以及研究广泛的计算问题和社会和组织现象的社会科学家使用。该档案最终将包括包含数千个多语言网站和多媒体文件的试验台数据，这些文件来自美国国内、中东和拉丁美洲的恐怖分子和极端组织。其目的是支持计算机和信息科学（CIS）研究人员使用暗网档案进行广泛的练习：开发视频和语音识别技术，推进英语或其他语言的信息检索技术，改进数据和文本挖掘以及机器学习和人工智能的方法。社会科学家也将能够使用这些档案，例如，研究动态？网络和组织之间的联系或关系，检查极端主义/恐怖组织对网络的使用，并研究文化，宗教和政治的相互关系。暗网档案将支持当前和历史数据的比较，最大限度地减少社会科学研究人员的手工分析；并使研究人员能够重复实验。除了支持信息、计算机和社会科学领域的研究人员外，该项目还将为国家安全部门（包括执法部门和情报界）提供一些帮助。该项目的网站（http://ai.arizona.edu/research/terror/CRDabstract.htm）提供了对暗网档案、研究基础设施和其他信息的访问。

Researchers all over the world in a variety of disciplines are working on developing the means for understanding extremist groups, terrorism and terrorists: their effects on the world; how they communicate, organize and propagate themselves; how they are funded; and who they connect with and why. This project is intended to create a large archive, known as the ?Dark Web Archive,? and a research infrastructure for use by computer and information scientists as well as social scientists studying a wide range of computational problems and social and organizational phenomena. The archive will ultimately comprise testbed data containing thousands of multilingual websites and multimedia files by U.S. domestic, Middle Eastern, and Latin American terrorist and extremist groups.The intent is to support computer and information science (CIS) researchers in using the Dark Web archive for a wide range of exercises: to develop video and voice recognition technologies, advance information retrieval techniques whether in English or other languages, and improve methodologies in data and text mining as well as machine learning and artificial intelligence. Social scientists will also be able to use the archive, for example, to study dynamic ?dark? networks and the linkages or relationships between organizations, examine use of the web by extremist/terrorist groups, and study the inter-relationship of culture, religion and politics. The Dark Web archive will support the comparison of current and historical data, minimize manual analysis by researchers in the social sciences; and enable the replication of experiments by researchers. In addition to supporting researchers in information, computer and social sciences, this project will also have some utility for the national security sector, including law enforcement and the intelligence community.The project Web site (http://ai.arizona.edu/research/terror/CRDabstract.htm) provides access to the Dark Web archive, research infrastructure, and additional information.