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There has been much effort on studying how social media sites, such as Twitter, help propagate information in different situations, including spreading alerts and SOS messages in an emergency. However, existing work has not addressed how to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Kyumin Lee , Jalal Mahmud , Jilin Chen , Michelle Zhou , Jeffrey Nichols

The problem of clustering content in social media has pervasive applications, including the identification of discussion topics, event detection, and content recommendation. Here we describe a streaming framework for online detection and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Mohsen JafariAsbagh , Emilio Ferrara , Onur Varol , Filippo Menczer , Alessandro Flammini

Twitter and other social media platforms have become vital sources of real time information during disasters and public safety emergencies. Automatically classifying disaster related tweets can help emergency services respond faster and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Sharif Noor Zisad , N. M. Istiak Chowdhury , Ragib Hasan

Hypergraphs offer superior modeling capabilities for social networks, particularly in capturing group phenomena that extend beyond pairwise interactions in rumor propagation. Existing approaches in rumor source detection predominantly focus…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Le Cheng , Peican Zhu , Yangming Guo , Keke Tang , Chao Gao , Zhen Wang

Social media such as Twitter provide valuable information to crisis managers and affected people during natural disasters. Machine learning can help structure and extract information from the large volume of messages shared during a crisis;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Mikael Brunila , Rosie Zhao , Andrei Mircea , Sam Lumley , Renee Sieber

Millions of online discussions are generated everyday on social media platforms. Topic modelling is an efficient way of better understanding large text datasets at scale. Conventional topic models have had limited success in online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Yingcheng Sun , Kenneth Loparo , Richard Kolacinski

The proliferation of hate speech on social media necessitates automated detection systems that balance accuracy with computational efficiency. This study evaluates 38 model configurations in detecting hate speech across datasets ranging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Mahmoud Abusaqer , Jamil Saquer , Hazim Shatnawi

Recent years have seen various rumor diffusion models being assumed in detection of rumor source research of the online social network. Diffusion model is arguably considered as a very important and challengeable factor for source detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rong Jin , Weili Wu

Nowadays, with the rise of Internet access and mobile devices around the globe, more people are using social networks for collaboration and receiving real-time information. Twitter, the microblogging that is becoming a critical source of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Sepideh Bazzaz Abkenar , Mostafa Haghi Kashani , Mohammad Akbari , Ebrahim Mahdipour

Most rumour detection models for social media are designed for one specific language (mostly English). There are over 40 languages on Twitter and most languages lack annotated resources to build rumour detection models. In this paper we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Lin Tian , Xiuzhen Zhang , Jey Han Lau

Sentiment analysis is a crucial task in natural language processing (NLP) that enables the extraction of meaningful insights from textual data, particularly from dynamic platforms like Twitter and IMDB. This study explores a hybrid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Aish Albladi , Md Kaosar Uddin , Minarul Islam , Cheryl Seals

A vast amount of textual web streams is influenced by events or phenomena emerging in the real world. The social web forms an excellent modern paradigm, where unstructured user generated content is published on a regular basis and in most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Vasileios Lampos

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

Public concern detection provides potential guidance to the authorities for crisis management before or during a pandemic outbreak. Detecting people's concerns and attention from online social media platforms has been widely acknowledged as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Jingli Shi , Weihua Li , Sira Yongchareon , Yi Yang , Quan Bai

Although it is known that transformer language models (LMs) pass features from early layers to later layers, it is not well understood how this information is represented and routed by the model. We analyze a mechanism used in two LMs to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Jack Merullo , Carsten Eickhoff , Ellie Pavlick

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

Tweet clustering for event detection is a powerful modern method to automate the real-time detection of events. In this work we present a new tweet clustering approach, using a probabilistic approach to incorporate temporal information. By…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Peter Mathews , Caitlin Gray , Lewis Mitchell , Giang T. Nguyen , Nigel G. Bean

The rapid dissemination of misinformation through social media increased the importance of automated fact-checking. Furthermore, studies on what deep neural models pay attention to when making predictions have increased in recent years.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Recep Firat Cekinel , Pinar Karagoz

People post information about different topics which are in their active vocabulary over social media platforms (like Twitter, Facebook, PInterest and Google+). They follow each other and it is more likely that the person who posts…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Muskan Garg

In the last decade, social networks became most popular medium for communication and interaction. As an example, micro-blogging service Twitter has more than 200 million registered users who exchange more than 65 million posts per day.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Qadri Mishael , Aladdin Ayesh