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Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Barathi Ganesh HB , Anand Kumar M , Soman KP

This paper addresses the important problem of discerning hateful content in social media. We propose a detection scheme that is an ensemble of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) classifiers, and it incorporates various features associated with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Georgios K. Pitsilis , Heri Ramampiaro , Helge Langseth

In the era of social media and networking platforms, Twitter has been doomed for abuse and harassment toward users specifically women. Monitoring the contents including sexism and sexual harassment in traditional media is easier than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Christos Karatsalos , Yannis Panagiotakis

User profiling means exploiting the technology of machine learning to predict attributes of users, such as demographic attributes, hobby attributes, preference attributes, etc. It's a powerful data support of precision marketing. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Yunpei Zheng , Lin Li , Luo Zhong , Jianwei Zhang , Jinhang Liu

Twitter is a well-known microblogging social site where users express their views and opinions in real-time. As a result, tweets tend to contain valuable information. With the advancements of deep learning in the domain of natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Mohiuddin Md Abdul Qudar , Vijay Mago

Opinion prediction on Twitter is challenging due to the transient nature of tweet content and neighbourhood context. In this paper, we model users' tweet posting behaviour as a temporal point process to jointly predict the posting time and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Lixing Zhu , Yulan He , Deyu Zhou

Inferring socioeconomic attributes of social media users such as occupation and income is an important problem in computational social science. Automated inference of such characteristics has applications in personalised recommender…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Nikolaos Aletras , Benjamin Paul Chamberlain

Text is a vehicle to convey information that reflects the writer's linguistic style and communicative patterns. By studying these attributes, we can discover latent insights about the author and their underlying message. This article uses…

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Social media has become an essential part of the digital age, serving as a platform for communication, interaction, and information sharing. Celebrities are among the most active users and often reveal aspects of their personal and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Muhammad Hamza , Rizwan Jafar

Sensitive attributes are legally protected characteristics that should not be used to discriminate. Careful steps have been taken to minimize the risk of human bias regarding these fields, such as race and age. Large language models (LLMs)…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anay Agarwalla , Simeon Sayer

As humans, we can often detect from a persons utterances if he or she is in favor of or against a given target entity (topic, product, another person, etc). But from the perspective of a computer, we need means to automatically deduce the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Gourav G. Shenoy , Erika H. Dsouza , Sandra Kübler

The rapid expansion in the usage of social media networking sites leads to a huge amount of unprocessed user generated data which can be used for text mining. Author profiling is the problem of automatically determining profiling aspects…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Ankush Khandelwal , Sahil Swami , Syed Sarfaraz Akhtar , Manish Shrivastava

An identity denotes the role an individual or a group plays in highly differentiated contemporary societies. In this paper, our goal is to classify Twitter users based on their role identities. We first collect a coarse-grained public…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Binxuan Huang , Kathleen M. Carley

Deep learning techniques have gained a lot of traction in the field of NLP research. The aim of this paper is to predict the age and gender of an individual by inspecting their written text. We propose a supervised BERT-based classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Vishesh Thakur , Aneesh Tickoo

Social media currently provide a window on our lives, making it possible to learn how people from different places, with different backgrounds, ages, and genders use language. In this work we exploit a newly-created Arabic dataset with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Chiyu Zhang , Arun Rajendran , AbdelRahim Elmadany , Michael Przystupa , Lyle Ungar

Social media user profiling through content analysis is crucial for tasks like misinformation detection, engagement prediction, hate speech monitoring, and user behavior modeling. However, existing profiling techniques, including tweet…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Vahid Rahimzadeh , Ali Hamzehpour , Azadeh Shakery , Masoud Asadpour

This paper explores the use of language models to predict 20 human traits from users' Facebook status updates. The data was collected by the myPersonality project, and includes user statuses along with their personality, gender, political…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Andrew Cutler , Brian Kulis

Anticipating audience reaction towards a certain piece of text is integral to several facets of society ranging from politics, research, and commercial industries. Sentiment analysis (SA) is a useful natural language processing (NLP)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Anna Nguyen , Antonio Longa , Massimiliano Luca , Joe Kaul , Gabriel Lopez

Unsupervised representation learning for tweets is an important research field which helps in solving several business applications such as sentiment analysis, hashtag prediction, paraphrase detection and microblog ranking. A good tweet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Ganesh J

The massive popularity of online social media provides a unique opportunity for researchers to study the linguistic characteristics and patterns of user's interactions. In this paper, we provide an in-depth characterization of language…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Pantelis Vikatos , Johnnatan Messias , Manoel Miranda , Fabricio Benevenuto