DarkBERT: A Language Model for the Dark Side of the Internet
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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Do you plan to release the dataset?
Hello, do you plan to make the model available?
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I wasn't aware that people were following DarkBERT on huggingface, my bad for not checking: but yes, we plan to release both the dataset used for the experiments conducted in DarkBERT and the model itself. There are several ethical implications on this, however, as stated on the paper. So we're still in the works of developing a consent form so that the model can be accessed only in the case of academic research. This process should probably be finalized by early July.
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I am working on an investigation for my master's degree that uses a web crawler to spider tor sites searching for cybercrime patterns, are you going to make the model available soon? because I would like to have an AI module that uses DarkBert to increase precision. Thank you
Sorry, I think I used the wrong email address and not one from my Institution in the access request, is it possible to re-submit?
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Yup, you can resubmit if necessary
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