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ICGS3 2015: Global Security, Safety and Sustainability: Tomorrow's Challenges of Cyber Security pp 113–122Cite as

Searching the Web for Illegal Content: The Anatomy of a Semantic Search Engine

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In this paper we describe the challenges in the realization of a semantic search engine, suited to help law enforcements in the fight against the online drug marketplaces, where New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are sold. This search engine has been developed under the Semantic Illegal Content Hunter (SICH) Project, with the financial support of the Prevention of and Fight Against Crime Programme ISEC 2012 European Commission. The SICH Project specific objective is to develop new strategic tools and assessment techniques, based on semantic analysis on texts, to support the dynamic mapping and the automatic identification of illegal content over the Net.

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Notes

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    http://fives.kau.se/.

  2. 2.

    http://antipaedo.lip6.fr/.

  3. 3.

    http://www.i-dash.eu/.

  4. 4.

    http://scc-sentinel.lancs.ac.uk/icop/.

  5. 5.

    http://www.psychonautproject.eu/.

  6. 6.

    http://www.rednetproject.eu/.

  7. 7.

    http://www.expertsystem.com/.

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The EU ISEC programme has funded the 2 year national project SICH to the consortium formed by Expert System and RiSSC (Centro Ricerche e Studi su Sicurezza e Criminalità http://www.rissc.it/).

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  1. Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti”, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Via Ariosto 25, 00185, Roma, Italy

    Luigi Laura

  2. Research Centre for Transport and Logistics (CTL), “Sapienza” Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

    Luigi Laura

  3. CeRSI - Research Center in Information Systems, LUISS Guido Carli University, Roma, Italy

    Gianluigi Me

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  1. GSM London, London, United Kingdom

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  2. SC Strategy Limited, London, United Kingdom

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  3. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Babak Akhgar

  4. Deutsche Bank, New York, USA

    Amie Taal

  5. City University, London, United Kingdom

    Ali G. Hessami

  6. Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Amin Hosseinian-Far

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Laura, L., Me, G. (2015). Searching the Web for Illegal Content: The Anatomy of a Semantic Search Engine. In: Jahankhani, H., Carlile, A., Akhgar, B., Taal, A., Hessami, A., Hosseinian-Far, A. (eds) Global Security, Safety and Sustainability: Tomorrow's Challenges of Cyber Security. ICGS3 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 534. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23276-8_10

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