Human trafficking is a widespread and compound social, economic, and human rights issue
occurring in every region of the world. While there have been an increasing number of anti …

In the era of big data and artificial intelligence, online risk detection has become a popular
research topic. From detecting online harassment to the sexual predation of youth, the state …

This study identifies the presence of human trafficking indicators in a UK-based sample of
sex workers who advertise their services online. To this end, we developed a crawling and …

According to the FBI, sex trafficking is the fastest growing organized crime business and the
third largest criminal enterprise in the world (Walker-Rodriguez et al. 2011). The …

In the last two decades, human trafficking (where individuals are forcibly exploited for the
profits of another) has seen increased attention from the artificial intelligence (AI) community …

Technology is often highlighted in popular discourse as a causal factor in significantly
increasing sex trafficking. However, there is a paucity of robust empirical evidence on sex …

Law enforcement and domain experts can detect human trafficking (HT) in online escort
websites by analyzing suspicious clusters of connected ads. How can we explain clustering …

In this paper, we present a novel language model-based method for detecting both human
trafficking ads and trafficking indicators. The proposed system leverages language models …

Child sexual abuse inflicts lifelong devastating consequences for victims and is an ongoing
social concern. In most countries, child sexual abuse material (CSAM) distribution is illegal …

Given a million escort advertisements, how can we spot near-duplicates? Such micro-
clusters of ads are usually signals of human trafficking. How can we summarize them …