Application of Big Data for National Security

Chapter 11

Mining Social Media

Architecture, Tools, and Approaches to Detecting Criminal Activity

Marcello Trovati

Abstract

Social media have been increasingly used as a means of information gathering and sharing in criminal activities. The ability to expose and analyze any such activity is at the core of crime detection, providing a variety of techniques and platforms that facilitate the decision-making process in this field.

Keywords

Bayesian networks; Data mining; Information retrieval; Social media; Text mining

Introduction

In his famous article, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Turing (1950) begins by introducing the question, “Can machines think?”

Since the dawn of artificial intelligence research, the possibility of creating machines able ...