Summary
Accurate and relevant intelligence is critical for effective counterterrorism. Too much irrelevant information is as bad or worse than not enough information. Modern computational tools promise to provide better search and summarization capabilities to help analysts filter and select relevant and key information. However, to do this task effectively, such tools must have access to levels of meaning beyond the literal. Terrorists operating in context-rich cultures like fundamentalist Islam use messages with multiple levels of interpretation, which are easily misunderstood by non-insiders. This chapter discusses several kinds of such “encryption” used by terrorists and insurgents in the Arabic language, and how knowledge of such methods can be used to enhance computational text analysis techniques for use in counterterrorism.
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Guidère, M., Howard, N., Argamon, S. (2009). Rich Language Analysis for Counterterrorism. In: Argamon, S., Howard, N. (eds) Computational Methods for Counterterrorism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01141-2_7
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