TY - GEN
T1 - Leveraging NLP and social network analytic techniques to detect censored Keywords
T2 - 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019
AU - Leberknight, Christopher
AU - Feldman, Anna
N1 - Funding Information:
The work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.: 1704113, Division of Computer and Networked Systems, Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Internet regulation in the form of online censorship and Internet shutdowns have been increasing over recent years. This paper presents a natural language processing (NLP) application for performing cross country probing that conceals the exact location of the originating request. A detailed discussion of the application aims to stimulate further investigation into new methods for measuring and quantifying Internet censorship practices around the world. In addition, results from two experiments involving search engine queries of banned keywords demonstrates censorship practices vary across different search engines. These results suggest opportunities for developing circumvention technologies that enable open and free access to information.
AB - Internet regulation in the form of online censorship and Internet shutdowns have been increasing over recent years. This paper presents a natural language processing (NLP) application for performing cross country probing that conceals the exact location of the originating request. A detailed discussion of the application aims to stimulate further investigation into new methods for measuring and quantifying Internet censorship practices around the world. In addition, results from two experiments involving search engine queries of banned keywords demonstrates censorship practices vary across different search engines. These results suggest opportunities for developing circumvention technologies that enable open and free access to information.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85108266429&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85108266429
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 2872
EP - 2879
BT - Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2019
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 8 January 2019 through 11 January 2019
ER -