DarkBERT: A Language Model for the Dark Side of the Internet
Authors: Youngjin Jin, Eugene Jang, Jian Cui, Jin-Woo Chung, Yongjae Lee, Seungwon Shin
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- The Dark Web has a unique language and communication style different from the Surface Web.
- A team of researchers developed DarkBERT, a language model pre-trained on Dark Web data.
- Building DarkBERT required overcoming challenges related to extreme lexical and structural diversity.
- The resulting model outperforms other widely used language models in various use cases.
- DarkBERT offers significant benefits over vanilla counterparts when applied to textual analysis of the Dark Web.
- Specialized language models can help researchers better understand and analyze complex domains like the Dark Web.
- Language models specific to the Dark Web can provide valuable insights to researchers analyzing this domain.
Abstract: Recent research has suggested that there are clear differences in the language used in the Dark Web compared to that of the Surface Web. As studies on the Dark Web commonly require textual analysis of the domain, language models specific to the Dark Web may provide valuable insights to researchers. In this work, we introduce DarkBERT, a language model pretrained on Dark Web data. We describe the steps taken to filter and compile the text data used to train DarkBERT to combat the extreme lexical and structural diversity of the Dark Web that may be detrimental to building a proper representation of the domain. We evaluate DarkBERT and its vanilla counterpart along with other widely used language models to validate the benefits that a Dark Web domain specific model offers in various use cases. Our evaluations show that DarkBERT outperforms current language models and may serve as a valuable resource for future research on the Dark Web.
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