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This paper presents a novel methodology for learning the behavioural profiles of sexual predators by using state-of-the-art machine learning and computational linguistics methods. The presented methodology targets at distinguishing between predatory and non-predatory conversations and is evaluated in real-world data. All the text fragments within a malicious chat is not of predatory nature. Thus it is necessary to distinguish the predatory fragments from non-predatory ones. This distinction is made by implementing the notion of n-grams which captures predatory sequences from conversations. The paper uses as features both content words and stylistic features within conversations. The content words are weighed using tf-idf measure. Experiments show that content words alone are not enough to make distinction between predatory and non-predatory chats. The implementation of various stylistic features however improves the performance of the system.
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Pandey, S.J., Klapaftis, I., Manandhar, S. (2012). Detecting Predatory Behaviour from Online Textual Chats. In: Dziech, A., Czyżewski, A. (eds) Multimedia Communications, Services and Security. MCSS 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 287. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30721-8_27
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