Many advantages of the Internetâ ease of access, limited regulation, vast potential audience, and fast flow of
informationâ have turned it into the most popular way to communicate and exchange ideas. Criminal and terrorist
groups also use these advantages to turn the Internet into their new play/battle fields to conduct their illegal/terror
activities. There are millions of Web sites in different languages on the Internet, but the lack of foreign language
search engines makes it impossible to analyze foreign language Web sites efficiently. This thesis will enhance an
open source Web crawler with Arabic search capability, thus improving an existing social networking tool to perform
page correlation and analysis of Arabic Web sites. A social networking tool with Arabic search capabilities could
become a valuable tool for the intelligence community. Its page correlation and analysis results could be used to
collect open source intelligence and build a network of Web sites that are related to terrorist or criminal activities.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nps.edu/oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/7288 |
| Date | 25 July 2012 |
| Creators | Nguyen, Qui V. |
| Contributors | Su, Weilian, McEachen, John C., McEachen, John C., Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Publisher | Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School |
| Source Sets | Naval Postgraduate School |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. As such, it is in the public domain, and under the provisions of Title 17, United States Code, Section 105, it may not be copyrighted. |
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