Project Grant 2331257

Award Date 9/15/23
Completion Date 8/31/26
Dollars Obligated $584K
Federal Grant Program
47.070
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
College Park, MD 20742, USA
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  1. Building a lexicon of subcultural language used in extremist online forums as indicators of radicalization, and developing tools to detect hate speech.
  2. Analyzing language use patterns and content to identify markers of radicalization and deradicalization among forum members.
  3. Studying the relationship between social incentives and radicalization within these online communities.
  4. Developing methods to detect when members are considering deradicalization and turning to support groups.
  5. Creating machine learning models to automatically identify members exhibiting signs of deradicalization.

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