From Dark Web to GeoPolitical Web: Exploring the Value of Social Media Informatics

Summary form only given. This talk will summarize the University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab's Dark Web research and discuss current and future development of a new GeoPolitical Web research program, which aims to study the emerging geopolitical events using advanced social media analytics techniques. The GeoPolital Web project is collecting longitudinal multilingual social media contents (forums, twitters, videos) from many different volatile regions in the world. Selected sentiment analysis, text mining, social network analysis, and econometrics models studies will be presented. Dark Web research has received significant international press coverage, including: Associated Press, USA Today, The Economist, NSF Press, Washington Post, Fox News, BBC, PBS, Business Week, Discover magazine, WIRED magazine, Government Computing Week, Second German TV (ZDF), Toronto Star, and Arizona Daily Star, among others. For more Dark Web and GeoPolitical Web project information, please see: http://ai.eller.arizona.edu/research/terror/.