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Identifying Products in Online Cybercrime Marketplaces: A Dataset for Fine-grained Domain Adaptation

Greg Durrett, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Rebecca Portnoff, Sadia Afroz, Damon McCoy, Kirill Levchenko, Vern Paxson


Abstract
One weakness of machine-learned NLP models is that they typically perform poorly on out-of-domain data. In this work, we study the task of identifying products being bought and sold in online cybercrime forums, which exhibits particularly challenging cross-domain effects. We formulate a task that represents a hybrid of slot-filling information extraction and named entity recognition and annotate data from four different forums. Each of these forums constitutes its own “fine-grained domain” in that the forums cover different market sectors with different properties, even though all forums are in the broad domain of cybercrime. We characterize these domain differences in the context of a learning-based system: supervised models see decreased accuracy when applied to new forums, and standard techniques for semi-supervised learning and domain adaptation have limited effectiveness on this data, which suggests the need to improve these techniques. We release a dataset of 1,938 annotated posts from across the four forums.
Anthology ID:
D17-1275
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Month:
September
Year:
2017
Address:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Martha Palmer, Rebecca Hwa, Sebastian Riedel
Venue:
EMNLP
SIG:
SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
2598–2607
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D17-1275
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D17-1275
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Cite (ACL):
Greg Durrett, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Rebecca Portnoff, Sadia Afroz, Damon McCoy, Kirill Levchenko, and Vern Paxson. 2017. Identifying Products in Online Cybercrime Marketplaces: A Dataset for Fine-grained Domain Adaptation. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2598–2607, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Identifying Products in Online Cybercrime Marketplaces: A Dataset for Fine-grained Domain Adaptation (Durrett et al., EMNLP 2017)
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https://aclanthology.org/D17-1275.pdf
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Code
 ccied/ugforum-analysis