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The rich and dynamic information environment of social media provides researchers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs with opportunities to learn about social phenomena in a timely manner. However, using this data to understand social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Siyi Guo , Zihao He , Ashwin Rao , Eugene Jang , Yuanfeixue Nan , Fred Morstatter , Jeffrey Brantingham , Kristina Lerman

The tremendous growth of social media content on the Internet has inspired the development of the text analytics to understand and solve real-life problems. Leveraging statistical topic modelling helps researchers and practitioners in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Marina Sokolova , Kanyi Huang , Stan Matwin , Joshua Ramisch , Vera Sazonova , Renee Black , Chris Orwa , Sidney Ochieng , Nanjira Sambuli

Certain type of documents such as tweets are collected by specifying a set of keywords. As topics of interest change with time it is beneficial to adjust keywords dynamically. The challenge is that these need to be specified ahead of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-23 Xingyu Wang , Lida Zhang , Diego Klabjan

Data reflecting social and business relations has often form of network of connections between entities (called social network). In such network important and influential users can be identified as well as groups of strongly connected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-26 Bogdan Gliwa , Anna Zygmunt , Stanisław Podgórski

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

Modeling topics effectively in short texts, such as tweets and news snippets, is crucial to capturing rapidly evolving social trends. Existing topic models often struggle to accurately capture the underlying semantic patterns of short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shuyu Chang , Rui Wang , Peng Ren , Qi Wang , Haiping Huang

User-generated content from social media is produced in many languages, making it technically challenging to compare the discussed themes from one domain across different cultures and regions. It is relevant for domains in a globalized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Gerhard Johann Hagerer , Wing Sheung Leung , Qiaoxi Liu , Hannah Danner , Georg Groh

Topic popularity prediction in social networks has drawn much attention recently. Various elegant models have been proposed for this issue. However, different datasets and evaluation metrics they use lead to low comparability. So far there…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Yiming Zhang , Jiacheng Luo , Xiaofeng Gao , Guihai Chen

Argumentation mining is a rising subject in the computational linguistics domain focusing on extracting structured arguments from natural text, often from unstructured or noisy text. The initial approaches on modeling arguments was aiming…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Anastasios Lytos , Thomas Lagkas , Panagiotis Sarigiannidis , Kalina Bontcheva

Moderation of reader comments is a significant problem for online news platforms. Here, we experiment with models for automatic moderation, using a dataset of comments from a popular Croatian newspaper. Our analysis shows that while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Elaine Zosa , Ravi Shekhar , Mladen Karan , Matthew Purver

People nowadays express their opinions in online spaces, using different forms of interactions such as posting, sharing and discussing with one another. How do these digital traces change in response to events happening in the real world?…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-13 Antonio Desiderio , Anna Mancini , Giulio Cimini , Riccardo Di Clemente

Online discourse covers a wide range of topics and many actors tailor their content to impact online discussions through carefully crafted messages and targeted campaigns. Yet the scale and diversity of online media content make it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Tristan J. B. Cann , Ben Dennes , Travis Coan , Saffron O'Neill , Hywel T. P. Williams

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

Recent advances in text mining and natural language processing technology have enabled researchers to detect an authors identity or demographic characteristics, such as age and gender, in several text genres by automatically analysing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Claudia Peersman , Matthew Edwards , Emma Williams , Awais Rashid

Topic evolution modeling has been researched for a long time and has gained considerable interest. A state-of-the-art method has been recently using word modeling algorithms in combination with community detection mechanisms to achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Patrick Kiss , Elaheh Momeni

The advent of the era of Big Data has allowed many researchers to dig into various socio-technical systems, including social media platforms. In particular, these systems have provided them with certain verifiable means to look into certain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Hoai Nguyen Huynh , Erika Fille Legara , Christopher Monterola

Dynamic topic modeling is widely used to analyze evolving trends in scientific literature, medical records, and social media. Traditional topic models represent each topic through a single probability vector on the multinomial simplex and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hanjia Gao , Hanwen Ye , Qing Nie , Annie Qu

Topic models are widely used in studying social phenomena. We conduct a comparative study examining state-of-the-art neural versus non-neural topic models, performing a rigorous quantitative and qualitative assessment on a dataset of tweets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Andrew Bennett , Dipendra Misra , Nga Than

Topic modelling has become increasingly popular for summarizing text data, such as social media posts and articles. However, topic modelling is usually completed in one shot. Assessing the quality of resulting topics is challenging. No…

Text data is inherently temporal. The meaning of words and phrases changes over time, and the context in which they are used is constantly evolving. This is not just true for social media data, where the language used is rapidly influenced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Kai-Robin Lange , Niklas Benner , Lars Grönberg , Aymane Hachcham , Imene Kolli , Jonas Rieger , Carsten Jentsch