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Analysing how people react to rumours associated with news in social media is an important task to prevent the spreading of misinformation, which is nowadays widely recognized as a dangerous tendency. In social media conversations, users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Endang Wahyu Pamungkas , Valerio Basile , Viviana Patti

Nowadays, internet has changed the world into a global village. Social Media has reduced the gaps among the individuals. Previously communication was a time consuming and expensive task between the people. Social Media has earned fame…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Saqib Iqbal , Ali Zulqurnain , Yaqoob Wani , Khalid Hussain

Most street gang members use Twitter to intimidate others, to present outrageous images and statements to the world, and to share recent illegal activities. Their tweets may thus be useful to law enforcement agencies to discover clues about…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Lakshika Balasuriya , Sanjaya Wijeratne , Derek Doran , Amit Sheth

In this article, how word embeddings can be used as features in Chinese sentiment classification is presented. Firstly, a Chinese opinion corpus is built with a million comments from hotel review websites. Then the word embeddings which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Yiou Lin , Hang Lei , Jia Wu , Xiaoyu Li

Thanks to platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, people can know facts and events that otherwise would have been silenced. However, social media significantly contribute also to fast spreading biased and false news while targeting specific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Alessandro Balestrucci , Rocco De Nicola , Marinella Petrocchi , Catia Trubiani

In online social networks people often express attitudes towards others, which forms massive sentiment links among users. Predicting the sign of sentiment links is a fundamental task in many areas such as personal advertising and public…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-05 Hongwei Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Min Hou , Xing Xie , Minyi Guo , Qi Liu

With the rapid development of social media such as Twitter and Weibo, detecting keywords from a huge volume of text data streams in real-time has become a critical problem. The keyword detection problem aims at searching important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yifei Yue

The rapid growth of social media in recent years has fed into some highly undesirable phenomena such as proliferation of abusive and offensive language on the Internet. Previous research suggests that such hateful content tends to come from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Pushkar Mishra , Marco Del Tredici , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

Sentiment in social media is increasingly considered as an important resource for customer segmentation, market understanding, and tackling other socio-economic issues. However, sentiment in social media is difficult to measure since…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Liang Wu , Fred Morstatter , Huan Liu

The ascension of social media platforms has transformed our understanding of urban environments, giving rise to nuanced variations in sentiment reaction embedded within human perception and opinion, and challenging existing multidimensional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jingfei Huang , Han Tu

We developed and used a collection of statistical methods (unsupervised machine learning) to extract relevant information from a Twitter supplied data set consisting of alleged Russian trolls who (allegedly) attempted to influence the 2016…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Christopher Griffin , Brady Bickel

We demonstrate the critical need to identify social situation and instability factors by acquiring public social satisfaction in this research. However, subject to the large amount of manual work cost in subject recruitment and data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Shuotian Bai , Rui Gao , Bibo Hao , Sha Yuan , Tingshao Zhu

Public opinion is a crucial factor in shaping political decision-making. Nowadays, social media has become an essential platform for individuals to engage in political discussions and express their political views, presenting researchers…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Xingyu Peng , Zhenkun Zhou , Chong Zhang , Ke Xu

Recent advances in machine learning have led to computer systems that are human-like in behaviour. Sentiment analysis, the automatic determination of emotions in text, is allowing us to capitalize on substantial previously unattainable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Saif M. Mohammad

Given the incessant growth of documents describing the opinions of different people circulating on the web, including Web 2.0 has made it possible to give an opinion on any product in the net. In this paper, we examine the various opinions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Abdelmalek Amine , Reda Mohamed Hamou , Michel Simonet

Stance detection on social media is an emerging opinion mining paradigm for various social and political applications in which sentiment analysis may be sub-optimal. There has been a growing research interest for developing effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Abeer AlDayel , Walid Magdy

It is a widely accepted fact that state-sponsored Twitter accounts operated during the 2016 US presidential election, spreading millions of tweets with misinformation and inflammatory political content. Whether these social media campaigns…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Nikos Salamanos , Michael J. Jensen , Costas Iordanou , Michael Sirivianos

Online social media are key platforms for the public to discuss political issues. As a result, researchers have used data from these platforms to analyze public opinions and forecast election results. Recent studies reveal the existence of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Kai-Cheng Yang , Pik-Mai Hui , Filippo Menczer

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

Until recently, social media were seen to promote democratic discourse on social and political issues. However, this powerful communication ecosystem has come under scrutiny for allowing hostile actors to exploit online discussions in an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Adam Badawy , Aseel Addawood , Kristina Lerman , Emilio Ferrara