2023 Rainmaker Start-Up - A Semi-Automated Analysis of Terrorist Linguistic Fingerprint Online: Prediction, Profiling, and Tactics Decoding

This project aims to integrate cutting-edge linguistic text-analysis tools with advanced automated techniques to predict, categorise, profile, and decode cyber-mediated terrorist messages, aiding in effectively addressing emerging threats. The anticipated outcomes are groundbreaking in terms of producing: an expedited linguistic threat-assessment model working in tandem with TRAP-18 risk indicators; an advanced linguistic profiling model; and a comprehensive understanding and effective categorisation of contemporary transnational terrorism-interpersonal threats and functions (e.g. positioning and opinion-influence tactics). This project holds immense potential for bolstering Australian national security in proactively detecting real-time threats through: automated analyses, hence timely intervention; comprehensively profiling violent extremists; and equipping intelligence staff with critical thinking skills to discern extremist language, enabling the development of counter-narratives.