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Social media platforms are a rich source of information these days, however, of all the available information, only a small fraction is of users' interest. To help users catch up with the latest topics of their interests from the large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Cailing Dong , Arvind Agarwal

This paper investigates how collaborative AI systems can enhance user agency in identifying and evaluating misinformation on social media platforms. Traditional methods, such as personal judgment or basic fact-checking, often fall short…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Varun Sangwan , Heidi Makitalo

In this work we present an approach for generating alternative text (or alt-text) descriptions for images shared on social media, specifically Twitter. More than just a special case of image captioning, alt-text is both more literally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Nikita Srivatsan , Sofia Samaniego , Omar Florez , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

The ability to track large-scale events as they happen is essential for understanding them and coordinating reactions in an appropriate and timely manner. This is true, for example, in emergency management and decision-making support, where…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Carlo Bono , Barbara Pernici

In an era of rapidly expanding software usage, catering to the diverse needs of users from various backgrounds has become a critical challenge. Inclusiveness, representing a core human value, is frequently overlooked during software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Nowshin Nawar Arony , Ze Shi Li , Daniela Damian , Bowen Xu

Twitter has become a leading source of real-time world-wide information and a great medium for exploring emerging events, breaking news and general topics which most matter to a broad audience. On the other hand, the explosive rate of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Nazanin Dehghani , Masoud Asadpour

In this paper, we have defined a novel task of affective feedback synthesis that deals with generating feedback for input text & corresponding image in a similar way as humans respond towards the multimodal data. A feedback synthesis system…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Puneet Kumar , Gaurav Bhat , Omkar Ingle , Daksh Goyal , Balasubramanian Raman

Misinformation undermines the credibility of social media and poses significant threats to modern societies. As a countermeasure, Twitter has recently introduced "Birdwatch," a community-driven approach to address misinformation on Twitter.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Nicolas Pröllochs

The ability to automatically recognize a person's behavioral context can contribute to health monitoring, aging care and many other domains. Validating context recognition in-the-wild is crucial to promote practical applications that work…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Yonatan Vaizman , Katherine Ellis , Gert Lanckriet

During sudden onset crisis events, the presence of spam, rumors and fake content on Twitter reduces the value of information contained on its messages (or "tweets"). A possible solution to this problem is to use machine learning to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Aditi Gupta , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru , Carlos Castillo , Patrick Meier

Social media such as tweets are emerging as platforms contributing to situational awareness during disasters. Information shared on Twitter by both affected population (e.g., requesting assistance, warning) and those outside the impact zone…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Hien To , Sumeet Agrawal , Seon Ho Kim , Cyrus Shahabi

Keyword extraction is a crucial process in text mining. The extraction of keywords with respective contextual events in Twitter data is a big challenge. The challenging issues are mainly because of the informality in the language used. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Vaibhav Khatavkar , Swapnil Mane , Parag Kulkarni

In the recent years, we have witnessed the rapid adoption of social media platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, and their use as part of the everyday life of billions of people worldwide. Given the habit of people to use these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Manos Schinas , Symeon Papadopoulos , Yiannis Kompatsiaris , Pericles Mitkas

The need for a comprehensive study to explore various aspects of online social media has been instigated by many researchers. This paper gives an insight into the social platform, Twitter. In this present work, we have illustrated stepwise…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Shahab Saquib Sohail , Mohammad Muzammil Khan , M. Afshar Alam

Recent studies showed that the dialogs between app developers and app users on app stores are important to increase user satisfaction and app's overall ratings. However, the large volume of reviews and the limitation of resources discourage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Phong Minh Vu , Tam The Nguyen , Tung Thanh Nguyen

Twitter is often the most up-to-date source for finding and tracking breaking news stories. Therefore, there is considerable interest in developing filters for tweet streams in order to track and summarize stories. This is a non-trivial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Igor Brigadir , Derek Greene , Pádraig Cunningham

Context-aware applications process context information to support users in their daily tasks and routines. These applications can adapt their functionalities by aggregating context information through machine-learning and data processing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Christoph Anderson , Isabel Suarez , Yaqian Xu , Klaus David

Computational social science studies often contextualize content analysis within standard demographics. Since demographics are unavailable on many social media platforms (e.g. Twitter) numerous studies have inferred demographics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Zach Wood-Doughty , Paiheng Xu , Xiao Liu , Mark Dredze

With over 500 million tweets posted per day, in Twitter, it is difficult for Twitter users to discover interesting content from the deluge of uninteresting posts. In this work, we present a novel, explainable, topical recommendation system,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Parantapa Bhattacharya , Saptarshi Ghosh , Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Soumya K. Ghosh , Niloy Ganguly

Twitter updates now represent an enormous stream of information originating from a wide variety of formal and informal sources, much of which is relevant to real-world events. In this paper we adapt existing bio-surveillance algorithms to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Nicholas Thapen , Donal Simmie , Chris Hankin