Is there a language of terrorists? A comparative manifesto analysis by Ebner, J, Kavanagh, C, Whitehouse, H

“…In this study we conducted an ethnographic content analysis of fifteen manifestos – expressing varied levels of extremism – to examine whether fusion and other relevant variables can be reliably identified and if the predictions of the fusion-plus-threat model are supported. …”

Measuring socio-psychological drivers of extreme violence in online terrorist manifestos: an alternative linguistic risk assessment model by Ebner, J, Kavanagh, C, Whitehouse, H

“…This paper develops a novel method of assessing the risk that online users will engage in acts of violent extremism based on linguistic markers detectable in terrorist manifestos. A comparative NLP analysis was carried out across fifteen manifestos on a scale from violent terrorist to non-violent politically moderate. …”

The identity-extremism nexus in virtual groups: the impact of online group alignment on radicalisation towards violence by Ebner, J

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The QAnon security threat: a linguistic fusion-based violence risk assessment  by Ebner, J, Kavanagh, C, Whitehouse, H

“…This study compares the narratives and language of QAnon groups in the encrypted messaging apps Telegram and Discord to those observed in the manifestos of terrorists. Drawing on our systematic linguistic analysis of fifteen terrorist manifestos that were published in the past decade, we developed a coding scheme which traces the narratives and linguistic markers that occur in the written communication of perpetrators of political violence. …”

Assessing violence risk among far-right extremists: a new role for natural language processing by Ebner, J, Kavanagh, C, Whitehouse, H

“…We conducted an R-based NLP analysis to produce a Violence Risk Index, integrating statistically significant linguistic markers of terrorist manifestos as opposed to non-violent communiqués into one weighted risk assessment score for each group. …”