Download or read book Stylometric Fingerprints and Privacy Behavior in Textual Data written by Aylin Caliskan-Islam and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine learning and natural language processing can be used to characterize and quantify aspects of human behavior expressed in language. Linguistic features exhibited in any kind of text can be used to study individuals' behavior as well as to identify an author among thousands of authors. Studying aspects of human behavior can be automated by incorporating machine learning techniques and well-engineered features that represent behavior of interest. Human behavior analysis can be used to enhance security by detecting malware programmers, malicious users, or abusive multiple account holders in online networks. At the same time, such an automated analysis is a serious threat to privacy, especially to the privacy of persons that would like to remain anonymous. Nevertheless, privacy enhancing technologies can be built by first and foremost understanding privacy infringing methods in-depth to create countermeasures. Authorship attribution through stylometry, the study of writing style, in translated or unconventional text yields as high accuracy as the state-of-the-art accuracy in authorship attribution in English prose. Applying stylometry to the more structured domain of programming languages is also possible through a robust and principled method introduced in this thesis. Code stylometry is able to de-anonymize thousands of programmers with high accuracy while providing insight into software engineering. Programmer de-anonymization can aid in forensic analysis, resolving plagiarism cases, or copyright investigations. On the other hand, de-anonymizing programmers constitutes a privacy threat for anonymous contributors of open source repositories. Bridging the gap between natural language processing and machine learning is a powerful step towards designing feature sets that represent aspects of human behavior. Features obtained through natural language processing methods can be used to study the privacy behavior of users in large social networks. Aggregate privacy analysis shows that people with similar privacy behavior appear in clusters. This knowledge can be used to design privacy nudges and effective privacy preserving technologies. Machine learning can be incorporated on any kind of textual data to automate human behavior extraction in large scale.
Download or read book Authorship Attribution written by Patrick Juola and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authorship Attribution surveys the history and present state of the discipline, presenting some comparative results where available. It also provides a theoretical and empirically-tested basis for further work. Many modern techniques are described and evaluated, along with some insights for application for novices and experts alike.
Download or read book Big Data Analytics written by Ladjel Bellatreche and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Big Data Analytics, BDA 2020, which took place during December 15-18, 2020, in Sonepat, India. The 11 full and 3 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions; the book also contains 4 invited and 3 tutorial papers. The contributions were organized in topical sections named as follows: data science systems; data science architectures; big data analytics in healthcare; information interchange of Web data resources; and business analytics.
Download or read book International Conference on Mobile Computing and Sustainable Informatics written by Jennifer S. Raj and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability and mobile computing embraces a wide range of Information and Communication Technologies [ICT] in recent times. This book focuses more on the recent research and development works in almost all the facets of sustainable, ubiquitous computing and communication paradigm. The recent research efforts on this evolving paradigm help to advance the technologies for next-generation, where socio-economic growth and sustainability poses significant challenges to the computing and communication infrastructures. The main purpose of this book is to promote the technical advances and impacts of sustainability and mobile computing to the informatics research. The key strands of this book include green computing, predictive models, mobility, data analytics, mobile computing, optimization, Quality of Service [QoS], new communicating and computing frameworks, human computer interaction, Artificial Intelligence [AI], communication networks, risk management, Ubiquitous computing, robotics, smart city and applications. The book has also addressed myriad of sustainability challenges in various computing and information processing infrastructures.
Download or read book Security and Privacy in Communication Networks written by Raheem Beyah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set LNICST 254-255 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 14thInternational Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2018, held in Singapore in August 2018. The 33 full and 18 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on IoT security, user and data privacy, mobile security, wireless security, software security, cloud security, social network and enterprise security, network security, applied cryptography, and web security.
Download or read book Researching Language and Social Media written by Ruth Page and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Media is fast becoming a key area of linguistic research. This highly accessible guidebook leads students through the process of undertaking research in order to explore the language that people use when they communicate on social media sites. This textbook provides: An introduction to the linguistic frameworks currently used to analyse language found in social media contexts An outline of the practical steps and ethical guidelines entailed when gathering linguistic data from social media sites and platforms A range of illustrative case studies, which cover different approaches, linguistic topics, digital platforms, and national contexts Each chapter begins with a clear summary of the topics covered and also suggests sources for further reading to supplement the initial discussion and case studies. Written with an international outlook, Researching Language and Social Media is an essential book for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Linguistics, Media Studies and Communication Studies.
Download or read book Data and Goliath The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World written by Bruce Schneier and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bruce Schneier’s amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written.”—Clay Shirky “Bruce Schneier’s amazing book is the best overview of privacy and security ever written.”—Clay Shirky Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you’re thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we’re offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches. Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. But have we given up more than we’ve gained? In Data and Goliath, security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He brings his bestseller up-to-date with a new preface covering the latest developments, and then shows us exactly what we can do to reform government surveillance programs, shake up surveillance-based business models, and protect our individual privacy. You'll never look at your phone, your computer, your credit cards, or even your car in the same way again.
Download or read book Forensic Stylistics written by Gerald R. McMenamin and published by Elsevier Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author-specific linguistic patterns can be objectively described and often measured, making author identification possible in many cases. This work demonstrates the validity of this claim and addresses the use of stylistic analysis for author identification and meaning interpretation.
Download or read book The Digital Humanist written by Domenico Fiormonte and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical introduction to the core technologies underlying the Internet from a humanistic perspective. It provides a cultural critique of computing technologies, by exploring the history of computing and examining issues related to writing, representing, archiving and searching. The book raises awareness of, and calls for, the digital humanities to address the challenges posed by the linguistic and cultural divides in computing, the clash between communication and control, and the biases inherent in networked technologies. A common problem with publications in the Digital Humanities is the dominance of the Anglo-American perspective. While seeking to take a broader view, the book attempts to show how cultural bias can become an obstacle to innovation both in the methodology and practice of the Digital Humanities. Its central point is that no technological instrument is culturally unbiased, and that all too often the geography that underlies technology coincides with the social and economic interests of its producers. The alternative proposed in the book is one of a world in which variation, contamination and decentralization are essential instruments for the production and transmission of digital knowledge. It is thus necessary not only to have spaces where DH scholars can interact (such as international conferences, THATCamps, forums and mailing lists), but also a genuine sharing of technological know-how and experience. "This is a truly exceptional work on the subject of the digital....Students and scholars new to the field of digital humanities will find in this book a gentle introduction to the field, which I cannot but think would be good and perhaps even inspirational for them....Its history of the development of machines and programs and communities bent on using computers to advance science and research merely sets the stage for an insightful analysis of the role of the digital in the way both scholars and everyday people communicate and conceive of themselves and "others" in written forms - from treatises to credit card transactions." Peter Shillingsburg The Digital Humanist is not simply a translation of the Italian book L'umanista digitale (il Mulino 2010), but a new version tailored to an international audience through the improvement and expansion of the sections on social, cultural and ethical problems of the most widely used methodologies, resources and applications. TABLE OF CONTENTS // Preface: Digital Humanities at a Political Turn? by Geoffrey Rockwell / PART I: The Socio-Historical Roots - Chap. 1: Technology and the Humanities: A History of Interaction - Chap. 2: Internet, or The Humanistic Machine / PART II: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions - Chap. 3: Writing and Content Production - Chap. 4: Representing and Archiving - Chap. 5: Searching and Organizing / Conclusions: DH in a Global Perspective
Download or read book Obfuscation written by Finn Brunton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less—and why we should. With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance—the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection projects. Brunton and Nissenbaum provide tools and a rationale for evasion, noncompliance, refusal, even sabotage—especially for average users, those of us not in a position to opt out or exert control over data about ourselves. Obfuscation will teach users to push back, software developers to keep their user data safe, and policy makers to gather data without misusing it. Brunton and Nissenbaum present a guide to the forms and formats that obfuscation has taken and explain how to craft its implementation to suit the goal and the adversary. They describe a series of historical and contemporary examples, including radar chaff deployed by World War II pilots, Twitter bots that hobbled the social media strategy of popular protest movements, and software that can camouflage users' search queries and stymie online advertising. They go on to consider obfuscation in more general terms, discussing why obfuscation is necessary, whether it is justified, how it works, and how it can be integrated with other privacy practices and technologies.
Download or read book Gamification Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 2250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serious games provide a unique opportunity to engage students more fully than traditional teaching approaches. Understanding the best way to utilize games and play in an educational setting is imperative for effectual learning in the twenty-first century. Gamification: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications investigates the use of games in education, both inside and outside of the classroom, and how this field once thought to be detrimental to student learning can be used to augment more formal models. This four-volume reference work is a premier source for educators, administrators, software designers, and all stakeholders in all levels of education.
Download or read book The Idea of Progress in Forensic Authorship Analysis written by Tim Grant and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element examines progress in research and practice in forensic authorship analysis. It describes the existing research base and examines what makes an authorship analysis more or less reliable. Further to this, the author describes the recent history of forensic science and the scientific revolution brought about by the invention of DNA evidence. They chart the rise of three major changes in forensic science - the recognition of contextual bias in analysts, the need for validation studies and shift in logic of providing identification evidence. This Element addresses the idea of progress in forensic authorship analysis in terms of these three issues with regard to new knowledge about the nature of authorship and methods in stylistics and stylometry. The author proposes that the focus needs to shift to validation of protocols for approaching case questions, rather than on validation of systems or general approaches. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics written by Ruslan Mitkov and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook of computational linguistics, written for academics, graduate students and researchers, provides a state-of-the-art reference to one of the most active and productive fields in linguistics.
Download or read book Mining the Web written by Soumen Chakrabarti and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2002-10-09 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book on mining the Web from the preeminent authority.
Download or read book Applied Bayesian and Classical Inference written by F. Mosteller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new version has two additions. First, at the suggestion of Stephen Stigler I we have replaced the Table of Contents by what he calls an Analytic Table of Contents. Following the title of each section or subsection is a description of the content of the section. This material helps the reader in several ways, for example: by giving a synopsis of the book, by explaining where the various data tables are and what they deal with, by telling what theory is described where. We did several distinct full studies for the Federalist papers as well as many minor side studies. Some or all may offer information both to the applied and the theoretical reader. We therefore try to give in this Contents more than the few cryptic words in a section heading to ~peed readers in finding what they want. Seconq, we have prepared an extra chapter dealing with authorship work published from. about 1969 to 1983. Although a chapter cannot compre hensively Gover a field where many books now appear, it can mention most ofthe book-length works and the main thread of authorship' studies published in English. We founq biblical authorship studies so extensive and com plicated that we thought it worthwhile to indicate some papers that would bring out the controversies that are taking place. We hope we have given the flavor of developments over the 15 years mentioned. We have also corrected a few typographical errors.
Download or read book Socio Technical Aspects in Security and Trust written by Thomas Groß and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The open access volume LNCS 11739 constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security, STAST 2019, held in Luxembourg, in September 2019. The total of 9 full papers together with 1 short paper was carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named as follows: Methods for Socio-Technical Systems focused on instruments, frameworks and re ections on research methodology and also System Security considered security analyses and attacks on security systems. Finally, Privacy Control incorporated works on privacy protection and control as well as human factors in relation to these topics.
Download or read book Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality Multimodality and Interaction written by Avi Arampatzis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2020, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in September 2020.* The conference has a clear focus on experimental information retrieval with special attention to the challenges of multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search ranging from unstructured to semi structures and structured data. The 5 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 9 submissions. This year, the contributions addressed the following challenges: a large-scale evaluation of translation effects in academic search, advancement of assessor-driven aggregation methods for efficient relevance assessments, and development of a new test dataset. In addition to this, the volume presents 7 “best of the labs” papers which were reviewed as full paper submissions with the same review criteria. The 12 lab overview papers were accepted out of 15 submissions and represent scientific challenges based on new data sets and real world problems in multimodal and multilingual information access. * The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
