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Analysis of Cyber Army’s Behaviours on Web Forum for Elect Campaign

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Information Retrieval Technology (AIRS 2015)

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The goal of cyber army for elect campaign is to promote a certain candidate and denounce his/her rivals for ballots. This paper investigates the cyber army’s behaviors with a real case study, 2014 Taipei mayoral race. We analyze the data crawled from the Gossip Forum on the Professional Technology Temple (PTT), Taiwan’s largest online bulletin board. The operations of cyber army are shown and discussed.

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Research of this paper was partially supported by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan under the contract MOST104-2221-E-002-061-MY3.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Man-Chun Ko & Hsin-Hsi Chen

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  1. Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

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  2. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Shlomo Geva

  3. University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Hideo Joho

  4. RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Falk Scholer

  5. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Aixin Sun

  6. Tianjin University, China

    Peng Zhang

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Ko, MC., Chen, HH. (2015). Analysis of Cyber Army’s Behaviours on Web Forum for Elect Campaign. In: Zuccon, G., Geva, S., Joho, H., Scholer, F., Sun, A., Zhang, P. (eds) Information Retrieval Technology. AIRS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9460. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28940-3_32

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