“Drug Name Recognition in the Cryptomarket Forum of Silk Road 2”, 2023-11-30 ():
Drug forums and online chat rooms constitute a relevant source of information for drug use, whose content can serve as reliable sources of information for national agencies with a high number of discussions taking place on various topics.
We aimed at investigating whether forum posts could provide useful information as regards to both the early appearance and the monitoring of drug names. A Drug Name Recognition system was used to extract drug terms from the cryptomarket forum of Silk Road 2 thanks to a Conditional Random Fields model.
Results: of our analysis showed that our model enabled us to discover the presence of 232 new drug names compared to the presence of 106 traditional drug names, which reflect the importance of internet traces as being robust and exploitable with respect to crime phenomena.