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Image-with-text memes combine text with imagery to achieve comedy, but in today's world, they also play a pivotal role in online communication, influencing politics, marketing, and social norms. A "meme template" is a preexisting layout or…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Levente Murgás , Marcell Nagy , Kate Barnes , Roland Molontay

This work addresses the challenge of hate speech detection in Internet memes, and attempts using visual information to automatically detect hate speech, unlike any previous work of our knowledge. Memes are pixel-based multimedia documents…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Benet Oriol Sabat , Cristian Canton Ferrer , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

With the effect of word-of-the-mouth, trends in social networks are now playing a significant role in shaping people's lives. Predicting dynamic trends is an important problem with many useful applications. There are three dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-10-30 Shuyang Lin , Xiangnan Kong , Philip S. Yu

A number of recent studies of information diffusion in social media, both empirical and theoretical, have been inspired by viral propagation models derived from epidemiology. These studies model the propagation of memes, i.e., pieces of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz , Niloy Ganguly , Krishna P. Gummadi

Internet memes are increasingly used to sway and manipulate public opinion. This prompts the need to study their propagation, evolution, and influence across the Web. In this paper, we detect and measure the propagation of memes across…

Nowadays, social medias such as Twitter, Memetracker and Blogs have become powerful tools to propagate information. They facilitate quick dissemination sequence of information such as news article, blog posts, user's interests and thoughts…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Saba Babakhani , Niloofar Mozaffari , Ali Hamzeh

Internet memes have become an increasingly pervasive form of contemporary social communication that attracted a lot of research interest recently. In this paper, we analyze the data of 129,326 memes collected from Reddit in the middle of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Kate Barnes , Tiernon Riesenmy , Minh Duc Trinh , Eli Lleshi , Nóra Balogh , Roland Molontay

Online harassment is a significant social problem. Prevention of online harassment requires rapid detection of harassing, offensive, and negative social media posts. In this paper, we propose the use of word embedding models to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Anqi Liu , Maya Srikanth , Nicholas Adams-Cohen , R. Michael Alvarez , Anima Anandkumar

The importance of the ability of predict trends in social media has been growing rapidly in the past few years with the growing dominance of social media in our everyday's life. Whereas many works focus on the detection of anomalies in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-11-22 Yaniv Altshuler , Wei Pan , Alex Pentland

Internet memes, channels for humor, social commentary, and cultural expression, are increasingly used to spread toxic messages. Studies on the computational analyses of toxic memes have significantly grown over the past five years, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Delfina Sol Martinez Pandiani , Erik Tjong Kim Sang , Davide Ceolin

Topic Models have been reported to be beneficial for aspect-based sentiment analysis. This paper reports a simple topic model for sarcasm detection, a first, to the best of our knowledge. Designed on the basis of the intuition that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Aditya Joshi , Prayas Jain , Pushpak Bhattacharyya , Mark Carman

The dynamic nature of language, particularly evident in the realm of slang and memes on the Internet, poses serious challenges to the adaptability of large language models (LLMs). Traditionally anchored to static datasets, these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Lingrui Mei , Shenghua Liu , Yiwei Wang , Baolong Bi , Xueqi Cheng

The rapid proliferation of the Internet and the widespread adoption of social networks have significantly accelerated information dissemination. However, this transformation has introduced complexities in information capture and processing,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yuchuan Jiang , Chaolong Jia , Yunyi Qin , Wei Cai , Yongsen Qian

The detection of events from online social networks is a recent, evolving field that attracts researchers from across a spectrum of disciplines and domains. Here we report a time-series analysis for predicting events. In particular, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Izzat Alsmadi , Michael O'Brien

E-commerce companies deal with a high volume of customer service requests daily. While a simple annotation system is often used to summarize the topics of customer contacts, thoroughly exploring each specific issue can be challenging. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shu-Ting Pi , Sidarth Srinivasan , Yuying Zhu , Michael Yang , Qun Liu

The communication revolution has perpetually reshaped the means through which people send and receive information. Social media is an important pillar of this revolution and has brought profound changes to various aspects of our lives.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Bilal Abu-Salih , Dana Al Qudah , Malak Al-Hassan , Seyed Mohssen Ghafari , Tomayess Issa , Ibrahim Aljarah , Amin Beheshti , Sulaiman Alqahtan

While new technologies are expected to revolutionise and become game-changers in improving the efficiencies and practises of our daily lives, it is also critical to investigate and understand the barriers and opportunities faced by their…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Lowri Williams , Eirini Anthi , Pete Burnap

Predicting the future popularity of online content is highly important in many applications. Preferential attachment phenomena is encountered in scale free networks.Under it's influece popular items get more popular thereby resulting in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Khushnood Abbas , Shang Mingsheng , Luo Xin

In the past few years, there has been a huge growth in Twitter sentiment analysis having already provided a fair amount of research on sentiment detection of public opinion among Twitter users. Given the fact that Twitter messages are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Sotiris K. Tasoulis , Aristidis G. Vrahatis , Spiros V. Georgakopoulos , Vassilis P. Plagianakos

The dynamics of individuals is of essential importance for understanding the evolution of social systems. Most existing models assume that individuals in diverse systems, ranging from social networks to e-commerce, all tend to what is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-22 Matus Medo , Manuel S. Mariani , An Zeng , Yi-Cheng Zhang