Terrorism Attack Classification Using Machine Learning: The Effectiveness of Using Textual Features Extracted from GTD Dataset  

作　　者：Mohammed Abdalsalam Chunlin Li Abdelghani Dahou Natalia Kryvinska 

机构地区：[1]School of Computer Science and Technology,Wuhan University of Technology,Wuhan,430070,China [2]LDDI Laboratory,Faculty of Science and Technology,University of Ahmed DRAIA,Adrar,01000,Algeria [3]Information Systems Department,Faculty of Management,Comenius University,Bratislava,82005,Slovakia

出　　处：《Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences》2024年第2期1427-1467,共41页工程与科学中的计算机建模（英文）

摘　　要：One of the biggest dangers to society today is terrorism, where attacks have become one of the most significantrisks to international peace and national security. Big data, information analysis, and artificial intelligence (AI) havebecome the basis for making strategic decisions in many sensitive areas, such as fraud detection, risk management,medical diagnosis, and counter-terrorism. However, there is still a need to assess how terrorist attacks are related,initiated, and detected. For this purpose, we propose a novel framework for classifying and predicting terroristattacks. The proposed framework posits that neglected text attributes included in the Global Terrorism Database(GTD) can influence the accuracy of the model’s classification of terrorist attacks, where each part of the datacan provide vital information to enrich the ability of classifier learning. Each data point in a multiclass taxonomyhas one or more tags attached to it, referred as “related tags.” We applied machine learning classifiers to classifyterrorist attack incidents obtained from the GTD. A transformer-based technique called DistilBERT extracts andlearns contextual features from text attributes to acquiremore information from text data. The extracted contextualfeatures are combined with the “key features” of the dataset and used to perform the final classification. Thestudy explored different experimental setups with various classifiers to evaluate the model’s performance. Theexperimental results show that the proposed framework outperforms the latest techniques for classifying terroristattacks with an accuracy of 98.7% using a combined feature set and extreme gradient boosting classifier.

关 键 词：Artificial intelligence machine learning natural language processing data analytic DistilBERT feature extraction terrorism classification GTD dataset 

分 类 号：TP181[自动化与计算机技术—控制理论与控制工程]