Wednesday, October 18, 2006

To Catch a Terrorist?

For those who may be interested, here is a pdf of a presentation I gave on detecting word substitution in terrorist communication. 

The presentation is basically a critique of a paper that can be found here.  The paper tries to find a method by which to automatically detect when terrorists are substituting words in their communications in order to get around watch-list based detection systems. 

Unfortunately, in my opinion the paper has some serious flaws.  I suspect most of the decent work in this area is not seeing the light of day (Damn you NSA!).

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