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A Framework for Exploring Gray Web Forums: Analysis of Forum-Based Communities in Taiwan

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Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2006)

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This paper examines the “Gray Web Forums” in Taiwan. We study their characteristics and develop an analysis framework for assisting investigations on forum communities. Based on the statistical data collected from online forums, we found that the relationship between a posting and its responses is highly correlated to the forum nature. In addition, hot threads extracted based on the proposed metric can be used to assist analysts in identifying illegal or inappropriate contents. Furthermore, members’ roles and activities in a virtual community can be identified by member level analysis.

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  1. Department of Information Management, Central Police University, 56 Shu-Ren Road, Ta-Kang, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan, 333, Taiwan, ROC

    Jau-Hwang Wang & Hong-Ming Lin

  2. Department of Management Information Systems, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Tianjun Fu & Hsinchun Chen

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

    Sharad Mehrotra

  2. MIS Department, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Daniel D. Zeng

  3. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, 85721, AZ, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  4. University of Texas at Dallas,  

    Bhavani Thuraisingham

  5. Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100190, Beijing, China

    Fei-Yue Wang

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Wang, JH., Fu, T., Lin, HM., Chen, H. (2006). A Framework for Exploring Gray Web Forums: Analysis of Forum-Based Communities in Taiwan. In: Mehrotra, S., Zeng, D.D., Chen, H., Thuraisingham, B., Wang, FY. (eds) Intelligence and Security Informatics. ISI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3975. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11760146_47

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