scholarly journals Detection of Radicalisation and Extremism Online: A Survey

Author(s):  
Irfan Tanoli ◽  
Sebastião Pais ◽  
João Cordeiro ◽  
Muhammad Luqman Jamil

Abstract Introduction: Due to the lack of regulation, the large volume of user-generated online content reflects more closely the offline world than official news sources. Therefore, social media platforms have become an attractive space for anyone seeking independent information. One of the main goals of this work is to clarify concepts such as Extremism and Collective Radicalisation, Social Media, Sentiments/Emotions/Opinions Analysis, as well as the combinations of all of them. Methods: The automatic identification of extremism and collective radicalisation requires sophisticated Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods and resources, especially those dealing with opinions, emotions or sentiment analysis. Text mining and knowledge extraction are also crucial, in particular, directed toward social media and micro-blogging. Results: The present document comprehends a study on theoretical material, focusing on the main concepts of the subject, including the main problems and challenges, from the different areas that compose online radicalisation research. Understanding and detecting extremism and collective radicalism online has a connection to sentiment analysis and opinion mining. There are many barriers to understanding extremism and collective radicalisation; one is to differentiate between who is really engaged in the process and who is just eventually talking about it. Conclusions: The other focus of this work is to find the best ways to identify extremism and collective radicalisation on the internet, using sentiment analysis and focusing on probabilistic methods to create an unsupervised and language-independent approach.

The World Wide Web has boosted its content for the past years, it has a vast amount of multimedia resources that continuously grow specifically in documentary data. One of the major contributors of documentary contents can be evidently found on the social media called Facebook. People or netizens on Facebook are actively sharing their opinion about a certain topic or posts that can be related to them or not. With the huge amount of accessible documentary data that are seen on the so-called social media, there are research trends that can be made by the researchers in the field of opinion mining. A netizen’s comment on a particular post can either be a negative or a positive one. This study will discuss the opinion or comment of a netizen whether it is positive or negative or how she/he feels about a specific topic posted on Facebook; this is can be measured by the use of Sentiment Analysis. The combination of the Natural Language Processing and the analytics in textual form is also known as Sentiment Analysis that is use to the extraction of data in a useful manner. This study will be based on the product reviews of Filipinos in Filipino, English and Taglish (mixed Filipino and English) languages. To categorize a comment effectively, the Naïve Bayes Algorithm was implemented to the developed web system.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sohini Sengupta ◽  
Sareeta Mugde ◽  
Garima Sharma

Twitter is one of the world's biggest social media platforms for hosting abundant number of user-generated posts. It is considered as a gold mine of data. Majority of the tweets are public and thereby pullable unlike other social media platforms. In this paper we are analyzing the topics related to mental health that are recently (June, 2020) been discussed on Twitter. Also amidst the on-going pandemic, we are going to find out if covid-19 emerges as one of the factors impacting mental health. Further we are going to do an overall sentiment analysis to better understand the emotions of users.


Author(s):  
Jalal S. Alowibdi ◽  
Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi ◽  
Ali Daud ◽  
Mohamed M. Dessouky ◽  
Essa Ali Alhazmi

People are afraid about COVID-19 and are actively talking about it on social media platforms such as Twitter. People are showing their emotions openly in their tweets on Twitter. It's very important to perform sentiment analysis on these tweets for finding COVID-19's impact on people's lives. Natural language processing, textual processing, computational linguists, and biometrics are applied to perform sentiment analysis to identify and extract the emotions. In this work, sentiment analysis is carried out on a large Twitter dataset of English tweets. Ten emotional themes are investigated. Experimental results show that COVID-19 has spread fear/anxiety, gratitude, happiness and hope, and other mixed emotions among people for different reasons. Specifically, it is observed that positive news from top officials like Trump of chloroquine as cure to COVID-19 has suddenly lowered fear in sentiment, and happiness, gratitude, and hope started to rise. But, once FDA said, chloroquine is not effective cure, fear again started to rise.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Nfn Bahrawi

<p class="JGI-AbstractIsi">Twitter is one of the social media that has a simple and fast concept, because short messages, news or information on Twitter can be more easily digested. This social media is also widely used as an object for researchers or industry to conduct sentiment analysis in the fields of social, economic, political or other fields. Opinion mining or also commonly called sentiment analysis is the process of analyzing text to get certain information in a sentence in the form of opinion. Sentiment analysis is one of the branches of the science of Text mining where text mining is a natural language processing technique and analytical method that is applied to text data to obtain relevant information. Public opinion or sentiment in social media twitter is very dynamic and fast changing, a real time sentiment analysis system is needed and it is automatically updated continuously so that changes can always be monitored, anytime and anywhere. This research builds a system so that it can analyze sentiment from twitter social media in realtime and automatically continuously. The results of the system trial succeeded in drawing data, conducting sentiment analysis and displaying it in graphical and web-based realtime and updated automatically. Furthermore, this research will be developed with a focus on the accuracy of the algorithms used in conducting the sentiment analysis process.</p>


Author(s):  
Sujata Patil ◽  
Bhavesh Wagh ◽  
Aditya Bhinge ◽  
Aakash Sahal ◽  
Prof. Madhav Ingale

Social media monitoring has been growing day by day so analyzing social data plays an important role in knowing people's behavior. So we are analyzing Social data such as Twitter Tweets using sentiment analysis which checks the opinion of people related to government schemes that are announced by the Central Government. This paper-based is on social media Twitter datasets of particular schemes and their polarity of sentiments. The popularity of the Internet has been rapidly increased. Sentiment analysis and opinion mining is the field of study that analyses people's opinions, sentiments, evaluations, attitudes, and emotions from written language. User-generated content is highly generated by users. The growing importance of sentiment analysis coincides with the growth of social media such as reviews, forum discussions, blogs, micro-blogs, Twitter, and social networks. It is difficult to analyze or summarize user-generated content. Most of the users write their opinions, thoughts on blogs, social media sites, E-commerce sites, etc. So these contents are very important for individuals, industry, government, and research work to make decisions. This Sentiment analysis and opinion mining research is a hot research area that comes under Natural Language processing. We plot and calculate numbers of positive, negative, and neutral tweets from each event.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-110
Author(s):  
Cristian Steven ◽  
Wella Wella

The growth of social media is changing the way humans communicate with each other, many people use social media such as Twitter to express opinions, experiences and other things that concern them, where things like this are often referred to as sentiments. The concept of social media is now the focus of business people to find out people's sentiments about a product or place that will become a business. Sentiment Analysis or often also called opinion mining is a computational study of people's opinions, appraisal, and emotions through entities, events and attributes owned. Sentiment analysis itself has recently become a popular topic for research because sentiment analysis can be applied in many industrial sectors, one of which is the tourism industry in Indonesia. To be able to do a sentiment analysis requires mastery of several techniques such as techniques for doing text mining, machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to be able to process large and unstructured data coming from social media. Some methods that are often used include Naive Bayes, Neural Networks, K-Nearest Neighbor, Support Vector Machines, and Decision Tree. Because of this, this research will compare these four algorithms so that an algorithm can be used to analyze people's sentiments towards the city of Bali.


Author(s):  
Daniel José Silva Oliveira ◽  
Paulo Henrique de Souza Bermejo ◽  
Pamela Aparecida dos Santos

This chapter describes how sentiment analysis, based on texts taken from social media, can be an instrument for measuring popular opinion about government services and can contribute to evaluating and developing public administration. This is an applied, interdisciplinary, qualitative, exploratory, and technological study. Throughout the chapter, the main theoretical and conceptual formulations about the subject are reviewed, and practical demonstrations are made using opinion-mining tools that provide high accuracy in data processing. For demonstration purposes, topics that triggered the popular protests of June 2013 in Brazil were selected, involving million people across the country. A total of 51,857 messages posted on social media about these topics were collected, processed, and analyzed. Through that analysis, it can be observed that even after six months, the factors that motivated the protests continued generating citizen dissatisfaction.


2015 ◽  
pp. 159-176
Author(s):  
Daniel José Silva Oliveira ◽  
Paulo Henrique de Souza Bermejo ◽  
Pamela Aparecida dos Santos

This chapter describes how sentiment analysis, based on texts taken from social media, can be an instrument for measuring popular opinion about government services and can contribute to evaluating and developing public administration. This is an applied, interdisciplinary, qualitative, exploratory, and technological study. Throughout the chapter, the main theoretical and conceptual formulations about the subject are reviewed, and practical demonstrations are made using opinion-mining tools that provide high accuracy in data processing. For demonstration purposes, topics that triggered the popular protests of June 2013 in Brazil were selected, involving million people across the country. A total of 51,857 messages posted on social media about these topics were collected, processed, and analyzed. Through that analysis, it can be observed that even after six months, the factors that motivated the protests continued generating citizen dissatisfaction.


Author(s):  
Amira M. Idrees ◽  
Fatma Gamal Eldin ◽  
Amr Mansour Mohsen ◽  
Hesham Ahmed Hassan

Every successful business aims to know how customers feel about its brands, services, and products. People freely express their views, ideas, sentiments, and opinions on social media for their day-to-day activities, for product reviews, for surveys, and even for their public opinions. This process provides a fortune of valuable resources about the market for any type of business. Unfortunately, it's impossible to manually analyze this massive quantity of information. Sentiment analysis (SA) and opinion mining (OM), as new fields of natural language processing, have the potential benefit of analyzing such a huge amount of data. SA or OM is the computational treatment of opinions, sentiments, and subjectivity of text. This chapter introduces the reader to a survey of different text SA and OM proposed techniques and approaches. The authors discuss in detail various approaches to perform a computational treatment for sentiments and opinions with their strengths and drawbacks.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Nfn Bahrawi

Every day billions of data in the form of text flood the internet be it sourced from forums, blogs, social media, or review sites. With the help of sentiment analysis, previously unstructured data can be transformed into more structured data and make this data important information. The data can describe opinions / sentiments from the public, about products, brands, community services, services, politics, or other topics. Sentiment analysis is one of the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that builds systems for recognizing and extracting opinions in text form. At the most basic level, the goal is to get emotions or 'feelings' from a collection of texts or sentences. The field of sentiment analysis, or also called 'opinion mining', always involves some form of data mining process to get the text that will later be carried out the learning process in the mechine learning that will be built. this study conducts a sentimental analysis with data sources from Twitter using the Random Forest algorithm approach, we will measure the evaluation results of the algorithm we use in this study. The accuracy of measurements in this study, around 75%. the model is good enough. but we suggest trying other algorithms in further research. Keywords: sentiment analysis; random forest algorithm; clasification; machine learnings. 


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