Natural Language Understanding and Multimodal Discourse Analysis for Interpreting Extremist Communications and the Re-Use of These Materials Online

This paper reports on a study that is part of a project which aims to develop a multimodal analytical approach for big data analytics, initially in the context of violent extremism. The findings reported here tested the application of natural language processing models to the text of a sample of art...

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Main Author: Wignell, Peter (Author)
Contributors: Chai, Kevin ; Brägelmann-Tan, Sabine ; O'Halloran, Kay L. ; Thier-Lange, Rebecca
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Terrorism and political violence
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