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Understanding collective decision making at a large-scale, and elucidating how community organization and community dynamics shape collective behavior are at the heart of social science research. In this work we study the behavior of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Abraham Israeli , Alexander Kremiansky , Oren Tsur

This paper studies the dynamics of opinion formation and polarization in social media. We investigate whether users' stance concerning contentious subjects is influenced by the online discussions they are exposed to and interactions with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Christine Largeron , Andrei Mardale , Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

In recent years, Online Social Networks have become an important medium for people who suffer from mental disorders to share moments of hardship, and receive emotional and informational support. In this work, we analyze how discussions in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Bárbara Silveira , Henrique S. Silva , Fabricio Murai , Ana Paula Couto da Silva

Comment sections below online news articles enjoy growing popularity among readers. However, the overwhelming number of comments makes it infeasible for the average news consumer to read all of them and hinders engaging discussions. Most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Julian Risch , Ralf Krestel

Existing studies of how information diffuses across social networks have thus far concentrated on analysing and recovering the spread of deterministic innovations such as URLs, hashtags, and group membership. However investigating how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Leon Derczynski , Matthew Rowe

News articles are extremely time sensitive by nature. There is also intense competition among news items to propagate as widely as possible. Hence, the task of predicting the popularity of news items on the social web is both interesting…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-02-07 Roja Bandari , Sitaram Asur , Bernardo A. Huberman

Social media has emerged to be a popular platform for people to express their viewpoints on political protests like the Arab Spring. Millions of people use social media to communicate and mobilize their viewpoints on protests. Hence, it is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Suhas Ranganath , Fred Morstatter , Xia Hu , Jiliang Tang , Huan Liu

At a time when information seekers first turn to digital sources for news and opinion, it is critical that we understand the role that social media plays in human behavior. This is especially true when information consumers also act as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Maria Glenski , Thomas J. Johnston , Tim Weninger

Can unstructured text data from social media help explain the drivers of large asset price fluctuations? This paper investigates how social forces affect asset prices, by using machine learning tools to extract beliefs and positions of…

General Economics · Economics 2023-08-09 Valentina Semenova , Julian Winkler

We introduce an online popularity prediction and tracking task as a benchmark task for reinforcement learning with a combinatorial, natural language action space. A specified number of discussion threads predicted to be popular are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Ji He , Mari Ostendorf , Xiaodong He , Jianshu Chen , Jianfeng Gao , Lihong Li , Li Deng

Understanding and predicting the popularity of online items is an important open problem in social media analysis. Considerable progress has been made recently in data-driven predictions, and in linking popularity to external promotions.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Swapnil Mishra , Marian-Andrei Rizoiu , Lexing Xie

The surge of retail investor activity on social media, exemplified by the 2021 GameStop short squeeze, raised questions about the influence of online sentiment on stock prices. This paper explores whether sentiment derived from social media…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Mateusz Kmak , Kamil Chmurzyński , Kamil Matejuk , Paweł Kotzbach , Jan Kocoń

Predicting the popularity of online content has attracted much attention in the past few years. In news rooms, for instance, journalists and editors are keen to know, as soon as possible, the articles that will bring the most traffic into…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Sofiane Abbar , Carlos Castillo , Antonio Sanfilippo

In this study, we propose a novel iterative refinement approach to predict the popularity score of the social media meta-data effectively. With the rapid growth of the social media on the Internet, how to adequately forecast the view count…

Social media platforms are thriving nowadays, so a huge volume of data is produced. As it includes brief and clear statements, millions of people post their thoughts on microblogging sites every day. This paper represents and analyze the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Suchandra Dutta , Dhrubasish Sarkar , Sohom Roy , Dipak K. Kole , Premananda Jana

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

Social Media Popularity Prediction has drawn a lot of attention because of its profound impact on many different applications, such as recommendation systems and multimedia advertising. Despite recent efforts to leverage the content of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Zhizhen Zhang , Xiaohui Xie , Mengyu Yang , Ye Tian , Yong Jiang , Yong Cui

The aim of this paper is to present methods to systematically analyze individual and group behavioral patterns observed in community driven discussion platforms like Reddit where users exchange information and views on various topics of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Sachin Thukral , Hardik Meisheri , Tushar Kataria , Aman Agarwal , Ishan Verma , Arnab Chatterjee , Lipika Dey

A sentiment analysis system powered by machine learning was created in this study to improve real-time social network public opinion monitoring. For sophisticated sentiment identification, the suggested approach combines cutting-edge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Arsen Tolebay Nurlanuly

The ability to track and monitor relevant and important news in real-time is of crucial interest in multiple industrial sectors. In this work, we focus on the set of cryptocurrency news, which recently became of emerging interest to the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Johannes Beck , Roberta Huang , David Lindner , Tian Guo , Ce Zhang , Dirk Helbing , Nino Antulov-Fantulin