Analyzing content development and visualizing social interactions in Web forum

Author

Yang, Christopher C. ; Ng, Tobun D.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA

fYear

2008

fDate

17-20 June 2008

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

30

Abstract

Web forums provide platforms for any Internet users around the world to communicate with each other and express their opinions. In many of the discussions in Web forums, it involves issues related to terrorism and crime. Some participants are even using the platform to propagandize their ideology or recruit members to commit crime. In this work, we propose a Web forum analysis system to analyze the content development and visualize the social interactions in Web forum.

Keywords

Web sites; data visualisation; social sciences computing; Internet; Web forum; content development; social interaction visualization; Artificial intelligence; Discussion forums; Educational institutions; Information analysis; Internet; Partial response channels; Social network services; Systems engineering and theory; Terrorism; Visualization; Web forum analysis; content analysis; information visualization; link analysis; social interactions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2008. ISI 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2414-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2415-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISI.2008.4565024

Filename

4565024