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FINAL CONFERENCE

SICH PROJECTSemantic Illegal Content Hunter

The SICH Project

Co-funded by the Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme of the European Union

The SICH Project

Alessandro Capone – Expert System20th November 2015, Rome

SICH: a brief introduction

Project co-financed by EU DG HOME AFFAIRS

ISEC PROGRAMME 2012

Prevention of and fight against crime – Illegal use of internet

PRIORITY CALL: Illegal Use of Internet (INT)

EXPECTED RESULTS :Facilitating the taking down of illegal Internet content through public-private


Facilitating the taking down of illegal Internet content through public-privatecooperation or blocking access to child pornography or blocking the access toillegal Internet content through public-private cooperation

PROJECT DURATION: from 1st September 2013 to 30th November 2015

PARTNERS: + Advisory Board

WEBSITE: www.sichproject.eu

Expert System

Award-winning,

patented semantic

technology

Global company

and listed on the

AIM exchange

3 of the world’s leading Oil & Gas

companies are our customers

90% of customers extend

their license to other domains


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and listed on the

AIM exchange

Millions of global

banking customers

use our software

their license to other domains

Top US and European

federal agencies

work with us

Expert System

We make

information

more findable &

Information

management,

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Collaboration

& Customer


more findable &

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your business be

more strategic

& efficientSocial media &

Marketing

optimization

Competitive

intelligence &

Information security

&

Innovation

Customer

Experience

RiSSCRiSSC is a no-profit Research Centre (association), funded in

2005, and dealing with security and crime.

RiSSC aims to contribute at promoting social and cultural development on crime prevention by means of research activities, education/training initiatives and technical assistance projects on the most relevant criminal


phenomena and their trends, on the causes/factors that facilitate crime and anti-social behaviour, and on the countermeasures to prevent/reduce both criminal opportunities and criminal impact.

It involves a network of experts and researchers who contribute to a multi-disciplinary approach.

www.rissc.it

Why SICH?

At present, LEA, research institutions, the media and international organizations active in the knowledge of the illegal content online may encounter great difficulties in collecting and managing the mass of documents / contents related to a specific topic and / or crime.


For these reasons, tools to support the analysts in the identification, selection and analysis of illegal online content can drastically improve the learning curve of a phenomenon; tools that can, ie, "hunt", illegal content hidden within the plethora of textual content on the Web.

SICH Objectives

OVERALL OBJECTIVE

The overall objective of the Project is to develop an innovative model - merging novel specific ontologies and semantic technology – to help analysts (from LEAs/public-private target groups) to identify and take down online illegal content

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES


SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

• to define an experimental model on three domains: Xenophobia/Racism, Online Illegal Gambling and NovelPsychoactive Substances – NPS

• to define a specific ontology for each project’s domain and to develop implementing tools, based on the semantic analysis on texts, that facilitates identification of targets from large volumes of unstructured online information coming from open sources

• to transfer the Project results among target groups at EU level

SICH Beneficiaries

• EU Member States' LEAs (including Europol and Interpol)

• NGOs and all those organizations (private or not) involved in the fight against crime on the Internet (hotlines, helplines, Safer Internet Centres, Cybercrime Centres of Excellence Network, etc.)


• experts and researchers belonging to those scientific community's groups working on the project issues

• media which want to deal with complex issues having restrict availability of time-to-work

AGENDA

09.00 – 09.30 Registrazione dei partecipantiWelcome and Registration

09.30 – 10.10 Il progetto SICH – Presentazione

The SICH Project

Alessandro Capone – Expert System


Crimine 2.0: Internet come strumento a supporto del crimine. I casi delle Nuove Sostanze Psicoattive (NPS) e dei crimini d’odio per finalità di razzismo e xenofobia (online hatespeech)

Crime 2.0: Internet as crime facilitator. The case of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and online hate speech

AGENDA10.10 – 10.45 Cybercrime: vecchi e nuovi scenari

Cybercrime scenarios

Gianluigi Me – Università LUISS – Membro dell’Advisory Board del progetto SICH

10.45 – 11.15 La crescita e la diffusione delle Nuove


10.45 – 11.15 La crescita e la diffusione delle Nuove Sostanze PsicoattiveThe emerging of Novel Psychoactive Substances

Roberta Pacifici – Istituto Superiore di Sanità

11.15 – 11.45 Coffee Break

AGENDA

11.45 – 12.25 Il contrasto ai crimini online – case histories in ambito comunitario The fight against Cybercrime – case histories from European experts

INTERPOL’s Investigative Support to the Fight against NPS


Daoming Zhang – Interpol

Fighting xenophobia, racism and right wing violent extremism content on the internet

Insp. Sara Bento - Polícia Judiciária Portuguese

12.25 – 12.40 Sessione Aperta: Q&AOpen Discussion: Q&A

AGENDA12.40 – 13.40 Pranzo

Lunch

13.40 – 14.10 Realizzazione di un motore di ricerca ottimizzato per la ricerca di contenuti illegali

A search engine optmized for discovering illegal contents


Luigi Laura – Università La Sapienza

14.10 – 15.10 SICH FOCUS: presentazione ed utilizzo dellapiattaforma SICH per l’analisi del fenomenoNPS e dell’online hate speechSICH FOCUS: Using SICH PLATFORM to analise NPS and Online Hate Speech over the Internet


AGENDA15.10 – 15.25 Sessione aperta: Q&A

Open Discussion: Q&A

15.25 – 15.55 Coffee break

15.55 – 16.40 Uno sguardo verso il futuro – l’eredità del progetto SICHA look towards the future – SICH’s legacy


A look towards the future – SICH’s legacy

Progetti europei IANCIS e ISODAC

IANCIS EU ProjectMassimo Bernaschi – CNR IaC

Progetto europeo EPS/NPS

EPS/NPS EU Project Elisabetta Bosio – RiSSC

AGENDAL’analisi geografica come nuovo strumento per la prevenzione ed il monitoring della distribuzione delle NPS

The geographical analysis as a new tool for the prevention and monitoring of the distribution of NPS

Michele Ieradi – ESRI Italia

Conclusioni


Conclusions


16.40 – 17.30 Sessioni Pratiche di utilizzo della piattaforma

Practical Sessions

Contacts

Thank you

Alessandro CaponeTechnical Account Manager -


Technical Account Manager -Expert System

[email protected]

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SICH FOCUS: Using SICH PLATFORM to analise NPS and


SICH FOCUS: Using SICH PLATFORM to analise NPS and Online Hate Speech over the Internet


Why SICH?

At present, LEA, research institutions, the media and international organizations active in the knowledge of the illegal content online may encounter great difficulties in collecting and managing the mass of documents / contents related to a specific topic and / or crime.


For these reasons, tools to support the analysts in the identification, selection and analysis of illegal online content can drastically improve the learning curve of a phenomenon; tools that can, ie, "hunt", illegal content hidden within the plethora of textual content on the Web.

Why SICH?

Multiple knowledge bases

Websites, blogs, social media

The volume and the diversity of sources

makes information difficult to manage.


Documents of various formats

and email

Websites, blogs, social media

and open sources

The common factor is a combination of very specific and generic text. A lot of it.

SICH Objectives

OVERALL OBJECTIVE

The overall objective of the Project is to develop an innovative model - merging novel specific ontologies and semantic technology – to help analysts (from LEAs/public-private target groups) to identify and take down online illegal content

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES


SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

• to define an experimental model on three domains: Xenophobia/Racism, Online Illegal Gambling and NovelPsychoactive Substances – NPS

• to define a specific ontology for each project’s domain and to develop implementing tools, based on the semantic analysis on texts, that facilitates identification of targets from large volumes of unstructured online information coming from open sources

• to transfer the Project results among target groups at EU level

The SICH systemThe ESCrawler is in charge to:

� download documents from the Web;

� search and extract parts of documents;

� generate documents composed by different documents;

� filter non-core parts of documents;

� populate HTML forms and to get the result;

� Classify documents or parts of them by calculating a

hash signature

Discovery & Categorization by

• Parser

• Semantic Network

• Lexicon

• Knowledge Base

• Memory

Semantic Index

Conceptual Map


• linguistic search

• spatial search

• events-based search

• search based on corpora selection

Semantic Search;

Text Mining;

Automatic Categorization;

Data Intelligence.

The SICH system

Web


Indexer Semantic

IndexCrawler COGITO®

Entity

Extraction

Categorization

Text Mining

The SICH system

Keywords

Concepts

Entities


Semantic

IndexSearcher

Categories

Corpora And

Sources

Geo

Alerts

Value of understandingWhat does it mean?

What is the context?

What is the sentiment?

Why is it important?


Why is it important?

“Increasing volumes, variety and velocity — big data— in Information Management and businessoperations, requires semantic technology that makessense out of data for humans, or automatesdecisions.”Source: Gartner Identifies Top Technology Trends Impacting Information Infrastructure in 2013

The power of language

Technology alone struggles to address

language ambiguities or understand

context…

Same Different Different


Same

Word,

Different

Meanings

Different

Words,

Same

Meaning

Different

Words,

Related

Meaning

Press: push or the

news media?

Buy or purchase? Hollywood or the

U.S. film industry?

Semantic approach

The Cogito® semantic technology can be classified as a software for the understanding and automatic analysis of text.

Unlike other technologies, Cogito does not process content as a sequence of characters and does not guess at the meaning of words and concepts.

Instead, Cogito is a real semantic software that relies on a deep semantic analysis and a rich semantic network to ensure a complete understanding of a text as a person would.


text as a person would.

Cogito® Technology


What makes technology unique

Our semantic network

is a rich map

of definitions of words

and associations


and associations

between words.

2 million concepts and all their different meanings

6 million relationships between these meanings

Example

Searching for word “MDMA”, the SICH system will return a set of documents containing words (or sequence of

characters) as “ecstasy”, “disco biscuit”, “methylenedioxymethamphetamine”, “love drug”. In the NPS domain, the concept, as aggregation of different


NPS domain, the concept, as aggregation of different words/lemma having the same meaning, is a very crucial phase, due to continuous updates of blacklists and the

introduction of new NPS in e-shops and fora.

Criminology

Criminology:

• phenomena qualitative analysis

• identification of patterns and trends


• analysis of criminal structures (eg. individuals, groups of ethnic origin, organised criminal groups ...)

• analysis of the role of technology as crime’s facilitators

Criminology & Semantic Analysis

Contribution of criminology to the semantic approach:

• desk research / literature analysis

• identifying relevant open sources


• identifying specific terminology

• support in the analysis of results and in the re-use of information for research, investigation

NPS

• “a new narcotic or psychotropic drug, in pure form or in preparation, that is not controlled by the 1961 United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs or the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, but which may pose a public health threat comparable to that posed by substances listed in these conventions


that posed by substances listed in these conventions (Council Decision 2005/387/JHA)”

• emerging phenomenon since the early 2000s, evolving both offline and online

NPS

• online NPS market: 4 main business segments

1. e-shops that sell the NPS as chemicals, often using their correct chemical name

2. e-shops that sell the NPS using their brand names;


2. e-shops that sell the NPS using their brand names;

3. classified advertising banners, often in public sites

4. deep web (eg. Silk Road, Evolution, Agora ...)

Hate speech

It includes all forms of expression that explain, incite, promote or justify racial hatred,

xenophobia, anti-semitism or other forms of hatred based on intolerance, including:


intolerance expressed by aggressive nationalism and ethnocentrism, discrimination and hostility

against minorities, migrants and people of immigrant origin

Hate speech

• Categories of interest for the project:1. crimes related to race2. crimes related to religion3. crimes related to sexual orientation


• all these categories are registering an increase of cases due to the increasing use of social networks for the purpose of xenophobia and racism

• textual communication, but also figurative

The SICH interface


LIVE DEMO

Contacts

Thank you

Alessandro CaponeTechnical Account Manager -


Technical Account Manager -Expert System

[email protected]

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Conclusions


Conclusions


Conclusions

• SICH could have a dramatic impact for crime analysis in Web-based internet complexdomains, where time-to-result is negligibleversus time for information discover


• Automatic information discovery is the onlyway to quickly understand complex phenomenonrapidly changing

• SICH could be the first step on a long path

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Practical Sessions

20th November 2015, Rome

Practical Sessions

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