Hierarchical Latent Representation-based Framework for Automatic Detection of Cybercrime Slang

Yong-Yeon Kim, Byung-Won On

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2023.50.12.1121

Cybercriminals constantly produce and use slang by adding criminal meanings to existing words or replacing them with similar words for communication. Continuous monitoring and manual work are required to respond to this, and a large amount of labeled training data is required when using deep learning. However, the ability to collect a large amount of training data is limited because direct labeling by a person requires a lot of time and money and proceeds secretly due to the nature of cybercrime. Thus, we develop a framework based on an autoencoder and propose a method to effectively detect contextual cybercrime slang and neologisms through hierarchical latent vector similarity comparisons to address these limitations. Experiments using a cybercrime post dataset showed that the framework had an accuracy of up to 99.1% at a similarity threshold of 0.5.