VeriDark: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Authorship Verification on the Dark Web. (arXiv:2207.03477v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

The DarkWeb represents a hotbed for illicit activity, where users communicate
on different market forums in order to exchange goods and services. Law
enforcement agencies benefit from forensic tools that perform authorship
analysis, in order to identify and profile users based on their textual
content. However, authorship analysis has been traditionally studied using
corpora featuring literary texts such as fragments from novels or fan fiction,
which may not be suitable in a cybercrime context. Moreover, the few works that
employ …

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