scholarly journals Using Global Terrorism Database (GTD) and Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Terrorism and Threat

It is evident that there has been enormous growth in terrorist attacks in recent years. The idea of online terrorism has also been growing its roots in the internet world. These types of activities have been growing along with the growth in internet technology. These types of events include social media threats such as hate speeches and comments provoking terror on social media platforms such as twitter, Facebook, etc. These activities must be prevented before it makes an impact. In this paper, we will make various classifiers that will group and predict various terrorism activities using k-NN algorithm and random forest algorithm. The purpose of this project is to use Global Terrorism Database as a dataset to detect terrorism. We will be using GTD which stands for Global Terrorism Database which is a publicly available database which contains information on terrorist event far and wide from 1970 through 2017 to train a machine learning-based intelligent system to predict any future events that could bring threat to the society.

2021 ◽  
pp. 68-80
Author(s):  
Muhammad Umer Hashmi ◽  
Ngoc Duy Nguyen ◽  
Michael Johnstone ◽  
Kathryn Backholer ◽  
Asim Bhatti

Author(s):  
Isha Y. Agarwal ◽  
Dipti P. Rana ◽  
Devanshi Bhatia ◽  
Jay Rathod ◽  
Kaneesha J. Gandhi ◽  
...  

Social media has completely transformed the way people communicate. However, every revolution brings with it some negative impacts. Due to its popularity amongst tons of global users, these platforms have a huge volume of data. The ease of access with minimal verification of new users on social media has led to the creation of the bot accounts used to collect private data, spread false and harmful content, and also poses many security threats. A lot of concerns have been raised with the increment in the quantity of bot accounts on different social media platforms. Also there is a high imbalance between bot and non-bot accounts where the imbalance is a result of 'normal behavior' of bot users. The research aims at identifying the artificial bots accounts on Twitter using various machine learning algorithms and content-based classification based on features provided on the platform and recent tweets of users respectively.


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Nureni Ayofe AZEEZ ◽  
Sanjay Misra ◽  
Omotola Ifeoluwa LAWAL ◽  
Jonathan Oluranti

The use of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. have enabled a lot of people to communicate effectively and frequently with each other and this has enabled cyberbullying to occur more frequently while using these networks. Cyberbullying is known to be the cause of some serious health issues among social media users and creating a way to identify and detect this holds significant importance. This paper takes a look at unique features gotten from the Facebook dataset and develops a model that identifies and detect cyberbullying posts by applying machine learning algorithms (Naïve Bayes Algorithm and K-Nearest Neighbor). The project also uses a feature selection algorithm namely x2 test (Chi-Square test) to select important features which can improve the performance of the classifiers and decrease classification time. The result of this paper tends to detect cyberbullying in Facebook with a high degree of accuracy and also improve the performance of the machine learning classifiers.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keldt Schoeman

Machine learning algorithms are the most common way in which most people interact with artificial intelligence. Wide scale usage of Machine learning has grown dramatically during the last decade, particularly within social media platforms. Considering the almost three billion monthly active users at Facebook and that most of their services rely heavily on machine learning, the aim of this essay is to investigate some of the social and moral implications of ML algorithms employed in social media. Guided by the adage ‘we shape our tools and then they shape us’ the common thread among several varied effects of social media was the outsourcing of important social actions from our physical reality to a virtual one. And, with current ML algorithms being successfully utilised to increase user time expenditure, social media platforms are likely to operate as an amplifier of social media effects i.e., greater time expenditure leads to greater amounts of important social actions outsourced to virtual reality. Now, considering that such extraordinary change as could be wrought by a fourth industrial revolution has historically been accompanied by change in the philosophical subject, it is not unreasonable to consider the possibility that change is occurring once more. Yet, I posit the view that we are currently in an intermediary phase between the physical and virtual realities, that we stand today as split subjects. For, while devices like our phones, consoles, watches and computers mean we are always on, many important social actions remain in the physical real. Though, even the effects of a partial transformation of the subject are substantial, as the kind of splitting many of us do today is reminiscent of compartmentalization, a psychologically significant coping mechanism known for its corrosion of moral agency. As such, with a potentially transient contemporary subject and a variety of associated effects the split subject is rich ground for further research.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 4535-4542
Author(s):  
Ramneet ◽  
Deepali Gupta ◽  
Mani Madhukar

For the past few years, sentiment analysis has been growing rapidly and with the abundance of computation power and plethora of machine learning algorithms, sentiment analysis has found numerous applications and acceptance as research area in machine learning. This paper covers analysis of sentiment analysis dealing with different aspects of its applications such as customer reviews, product reviews, film reviews, emotion detection, market research or many more such areas. To conduct sentiment analysis, data is extracted from various social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook etc. The data available on these social media platforms is primarily unstructured, therefore to analyze this data it must be pre-processed, feature vector identified and further implementation of models to trained and tested on different algorithms. There are several algorithms such as SVM, Naïve Bayes, K-means, KNN, decision tree, random forest and other algorithms, which are used to evaluate and hybrid to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the model.


Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Iftikhar Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Yousaf ◽  
Suhail Yousaf ◽  
Muhammad Ovais Ahmad

The advent of the World Wide Web and the rapid adoption of social media platforms (such as Facebook and Twitter) paved the way for information dissemination that has never been witnessed in the human history before. With the current usage of social media platforms, consumers are creating and sharing more information than ever before, some of which are misleading with no relevance to reality. Automated classification of a text article as misinformation or disinformation is a challenging task. Even an expert in a particular domain has to explore multiple aspects before giving a verdict on the truthfulness of an article. In this work, we propose to use machine learning ensemble approach for automated classification of news articles. Our study explores different textual properties that can be used to distinguish fake contents from real. By using those properties, we train a combination of different machine learning algorithms using various ensemble methods and evaluate their performance on 4 real world datasets. Experimental evaluation confirms the superior performance of our proposed ensemble learner approach in comparison to individual learners.


Sentiment analysis is the classifying of a review, opinion or a statement into categories, which brings clarity about specific sentiments of customers or the concerned group to businesses and developers. These categorized data are very critical to the development of businesses and understanding the public opinion. The need for accurate opinion and large-scale sentiment analysis on social media platforms is growing day by day. In this paper, a number of machine learning algorithms are trained and applied on twitter datasets and their respective accuracies are determined separately on different polarities of data, thereby giving a glimpse to which algorithm works best and which works worst..


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Zeeshan Bin Siddique ◽  
Mudassar Ali Khan ◽  
Ikram Ud Din ◽  
Ahmad Almogren ◽  
Irfan Mohiuddin ◽  
...  

Social communication has evolved, with e-mail still being one of the most common communication means, used for both formal and informal ways. With many languages being digitized for the electronic world, the use of English is still abundant. However, various native languages of different regions are emerging gradually. The Urdu language, coming from South Asia, mostly Pakistan, is also getting its pace as a medium for communications used in social media platforms, websites, and emails. With the increased usage of emails, Urdu’s number and variety of spam content also increase. Spam emails are inappropriate and unwanted messages usually sent to breach security. These spam emails include phishing URLs, advertisements, commercial segments, and a large number of indiscriminate recipients. Thus, such content is always a hazard for the user, and many studies have taken place to detect such spam content. However, there is a dire need to detect spam emails, which have content written in Urdu language. The proposed study utilizes the existing machine learning algorithms including Naive Bayes, CNN, SVM, and LSTM to detect and categorize e-mail content. According to our findings, the LSTM model outperforms other models with a highest score of 98.4% accuracy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
Mohammed W. Habib ◽  
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Zainab N. Sultani ◽  

One of the active sciences or studies whose importance is rising is the science of sentiment analysis. The reason is due to the increasing sources of data that require investigation. Among the most valuable sources is Twitter, in addition to Facebook and other social media platforms. The objective of sentiment analysis is to classify sentiment/opinions of users as positive, negative, or neutral from textual data. This analysis is valuable for many applications that require understanding people's or users' opinions and emotions about a particular topic, product, or service. Several researchers tackle the problem of sentiment analysis using machine learning algorithms. In this paper, a comparative study is presented of various researches conducted a sentiment analysis on social media and especially on Tweets. The survey carried out in this paper provides an overview of preprocessing steps, machine learning algorithms, and approaches used for sentiment classification during the period 2015-2020.


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