Title
DarkJargon.net: A Platform for Understanding Underground Conversation with Latent Meaning
Abstract
ABSTRACTAn essential part of underground conversation are dark jargon terms. They are benign-looking, but have hidden, sometimes sinister meanings and are used by participants of underground forums for illicit behavior. For example, the dark term "rat" is often used in lieu of "Remote Access Trojan". We present a novel online platform that caters to the understating of underground conversation with latent meaning. Our system enables researchers, law enforcement agents and "white-hat" hackers to gain invaluable insights into underground communication by providing them with a tool to (1) look-up dark jargon terms in a dictionary; (2) explore the usage of dark jargon over time and interpret their meaning; (3) collaborate and contribute their own research findings. Furthermore, we introduce a novel dark jargon interpretation method that leverages masked language modeling of a transformer-based architecture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3404835.3462801
Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
dark jargon interpretation, underground forum, dark net
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dominic Seyler194.29
Wei Liu200.34
Yunan Zhang300.34
Xiaofeng Wang42543161.68
ChengXiang Zhai511908649.74