Using digital humanities and linguistics to help with terrorism investigations

Longhi, Julien

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110564

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“…Significant cross-sectoral collaboration among countries is another consideration, given that the digital world increasingly transcends geographical boundaries and political borders. It is also important to note in this context that digital surveillance and tracking are already being deployed in many other domains-for example, to increase security in travel via biometric passports, 49 to develop innovative methods to tackle criminal ll Article activity and terrorism, 50,51 or to predict and monitor activities within smart cities, 52 recalling debates on trade-offs between security and privacy. 8,53 Furthermore, it will be critical to evaluate the appropriateness of deploying digital surveillance tools by referencing a counterfactual, as argued recently by Mello and Wang-if it is not employed, what is the alternative?.…”

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Moderate support for the use of digital tracking to support climate-mitigation strategies

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Sabet-Kassouf³

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Moderate support for the use of digital tracking to support climate-mitigation strategies

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Wood²,

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One Earth

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“…Researchers in the forensic domain typically address investigative questions via linguistic analysis, such as identifying authors of illegal activities, understanding the content of documents, and extracting information about the timing, location, and intent of the text (Longhi 2021). Alternatively, studies into Deceptive Opinion Spam, which focus on fraudulent analysis, have proposed techniques for examining linguistic semantics by identifying patterns in the expression and content from a statistical standpoint.…”

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The Language of Deception: Applying Findings on Opinion Spam to Legal and Forensic Discourses

Jakupov,

Longhi,

Zeddini

2023

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Digital forensic investigations are becoming increasingly crucial in criminal investigations and civil litigations, especially in cases of corporate espionage and intellectual property theft as more communication occurs online via e-mail and social media. Deceptive opinion spam analysis is an emerging field of research that aims to detect and identify fraudulent reviews, comments, and other forms of deceptive online content. In this paper, we explore how the findings from this field may be relevant to forensic investigation, particularly the features that capture stylistic patterns and sentiments, which are psychologically relevant aspects of truthful and deceptive language. To assess these features’ utility, we demonstrate the potential of our proposed approach using the real-world dataset from the Enron Email Corpus. Our findings suggest that deceptive opinion spam analysis may be a valuable tool for forensic investigators and legal professionals looking to identify and analyze deceptive behavior in online communication. By incorporating these techniques into their investigative and legal strategies, professionals can improve the accuracy and reliability of their findings, leading to more effective and just outcomes.

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“…Analistas del discurso y lingüistas han estudiado estos discursos con objetivos distintos pero complementarios que contribuyen a una comprensión holística del fenómeno. Contamos, por ejemplo, con estudios que identifican características lingüísticas y discursivas para la detección automática de discursos de extrema derecha o izquierda difundidos en medios digitales (Devyatkin et al 2017;Longhi 2020; Alava, Chaouni y Charles 2020), así como estudios sobre la relación entre terrorismo y comunicación desde la amplia perspectiva del análisis del discurso (Matusitz 2013), y otros que se proponen "to understand the way that discourse shapes and is shaped by sociopolitical activity in response to 9/11, war and terrorism" (Hodges y Nilep 2007: 3).…”

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La construcción discursiva de identidades de terroristas del 17A

Giménez García,

Queralt

2023

Boletín de Filología

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The literature on jihadist discourse focuses on the processes of propaganda and recruitment and on their dissemination through digital media. On the first session of the trial for the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks of August 17 and 18, 2017 (known as 17A), three videos were screened in which some of the young men who would later become responsible for the attacks convey their intentions while manufacturing explosives. This study analyzes their interaction from the perspective of pragmatic linguistics and examines the identities that the young terrorists construct for themselves and for others through the analytical model put forward in Stamou (2018). The results of this analysis scrutinize the linguistic resources used by the speakers to construct identities for themselves and others, as well as the relations established between these and the ideologies that support their discourse. We conclude that the analytical tools applied in this study may become very relevant for the discoursive and linguistic profiling of alleged terrorists for forensic purposes.

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Using digital humanities and linguistics to help with terrorism investigations

Cited by 16 publications

References 6 publications

Moderate support for the use of digital tracking to support climate-mitigation strategies

Moderate support for the use of digital tracking to support climate-mitigation strategies

The Language of Deception: Applying Findings on Opinion Spam to Legal and Forensic Discourses

La construcción discursiva de identidades de terroristas del 17A

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