Bayesian method predicts social unrest from social media data.
problem Uncertainty in predicting events from diverse, unstructured social media data.
method Machine learning for classification and empirical Bayesian approach for event probability calculation.
result Predicted social unrest events in Australian cities with high accuracy.
EmTract extracts emotions from financial social media text.
problem Understanding investor emotions in financial markets.
method Annotated data, DistilBERT model, embedding space augmentation.
result EmTract outperforms existing emotion classifiers.
Paper uses GAN to predict opioid relapse from social media data.
problem Accurate relapse prediction for opioid addiction.
method Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) model trained on sentiment images and social influences.
result GAN model predicts relapse better than alternatives, showing relapse is linked to joy and negative emotions.
Social media has nonlinear causal effects on stock market prices, according to new research.
problem Understanding the nonlinear relationship between social media and stock market dynamics.
method Analyzed extensive social media data related to DJIA index components using information-theoretic measures.
result Social media has significant nonlinear causality on stocks' returns, with social media dominating the directional coupling.
Paper proposes using word embeddings to detect trolls in social media debates.
problem Preventing online harassment through rapid detection of offensive posts.
method Word embedding models for identifying fast-changing topics and negative content.
result GloVe model helps in discovering new keywords for trolling detection.
This paper studies how social media posts, especially by executives, affect stock prices.
problem Predicting stock market movements using social media data.
method Integrated sentiment analysis of Twitter and Reddit posts with historical stock data using time series models and deep learning.
result Improvements in stock price prediction when social media data, especially executive posts, are included.
Model predicts future stock market structure using social and financial network data.
problem Predicting future stock market structure with high accuracy.
method Combines financial and social media network information using a multiplex network approach.
result Up to 40% out-of-sample performance improvement in predicting future market structure.
Social media reduces individual investors' disposition effect through negative information.
problem The disposition effect in individual investors selling profitable assets too early and holding onto losing assets for too long.
method Analysis of post data and trading data from Xueqiu.com.
result Social media information significantly reduces the disposition effect.
Paper shows pretrained models can categorize Thai social media content effectively.
problem Lack of labeled data for Thai social media content classification.
method Pretrained language models on a large noisy Thai social media corpus, fine-tuned for downstream tasks.
result State-of-the-art results achieved on Thai social text categorization tasks.
New framework uses social media images to estimate wildlife populations.
problem Lack of basic data for wildlife species due to inadequate traditional methods.
method Developed a new computer vision tool to account for social media bias.
result Showed that wildlife population size estimates are learnable from social media.
Analyze food popularity trends using social media data.
problem Identify trends and popularity of cuisine types across space and time.
method Use off-the-shelf machine learning techniques, Kernel Density Estimation, and Bayesian Networks.
result Model dependencies among food cuisines popularity.
Deep learning ensemble detects social media rumors faster.
problem Timely detection of rumors on social media platforms.
method Ensemble model using deep neural networks and time-series tweet data.
result Improved rumor detection performance by 7.9%.
Deep learning predicts stock movements using social media data.
problem Predicting stock movements with traditional methods is challenging.
method Graph neural network combining financial data and social media.
result Improvement of 28% in cumulative returns.
Paper proposes a framework to analyze DV on social media.
problem Lack of actionable knowledge from DV social media data.
method Develops a novel framework to model and discover themes related to DV.
result Provides actionable knowledge from DV social media content.
Social media enhances or diminishes scientific status, depending on usage.
problem Impact of social media on scientific stratification and mobility.
method Logistic Attribution Analysis combining statistical and machine learning methods.
result Social media promotes stratification and mobility, but beyond a threshold, it negatively impacts status.
Study of negative ads on social media during U.S. midterm elections.
problem Understanding the effectiveness and mechanisms of negative advertising on social media.
method Machine learning for sentiment analysis, AI image recognition, ordinal regressions.
result Negative ads are less effective than previously thought, anger is a key mechanism.
Study uses social media analytics to identify exercise-related topics.
problem Understanding exercise-related discussions on social media.
method Data collection, topic modeling, and data annotation.
result 86% of detected topics were meaningful after annotation.
The paper proposes a method to learn user representations invariant to social media behavior changes.
problem Difficulty in comparing users over time due to evolving behavior.
method Learning a mapping from user activity to a vector space capturing invariant features.
result The learned mapping enables efficient comparisons of users not seen at training time.
Study shows social media impacts shareholder returns on ESG risks.
problem Investor sentiment and public opinion on ESG risks.
method Event study design using social media data.
result Statistically significant reduction in abnormal returns after ESG-risk events.
Social media features predict stock prices in China's market.
problem Lack of research on stock prediction in China's market.
method Extracted features from Xueqiu tweets, analyzed collective sentiment and perception, used nonlinear models.
result Social media features are effective in predicting stock price movements in China.
Systematic review of ML models for detecting social media deception.
problem Detecting fake news, spam, and fake accounts on social media.
method 36 studies evaluated using PROBAST tool, identifying biases and limitations.
result Over-reliance on accuracy in imbalanced data settings is a flaw.
Study finds social media investor emotions predict stock prices.
problem Validation of social media sentiment models in predicting market behavior.
method Employed EmTract, an emotion model, to test social media sentiment against lab experiments.
result Firm-specific investor emotions forecast daily asset price movements.
Optimized trading strategies from social media sentiment data.
problem Creating profitable trading strategies from financial sentiment analysis.
method Evolutionary optimization applied to sentiment data.
result Numerical results show optimal trading strategies for DJIA stocks.
Crowdbreaks tracks health trends using social media and crowdsourcing.
problem Challenges in tracking health trends using social media data.
method Open platform for continuous crowdsourced labelling of social media content.
result Accelerates research process in public health.
Study compares sentiment spillover networks from news and social media in tech companies.
problem Understanding how sentiment information flows between companies through news and social media.
method Network-based transfer entropy method to measure and compare sentiment spillover.
result News shows stronger information flow among tech companies after COVID-19.
This chapter teaches how to model social media events using Hawkes processes.
problem Modeling discrete, inter-dependent events over continuous time in social media.
method Introduction to point processes, Hawkes process, event intensity function, event simulation, parameter estimation.
result Demonstrates modeling retweet cascades using a Hawkes self-exciting process.
Model predicts increased social unrest during COVID-19 using social media data.
problem Detecting rising conflict potential in societies during pandemics.
method Neural implicit motive pattern recognition from social media texts.
result Significant increase in conflict indicators during the pandemic.
Social media signals are most informative about financial volatility when sentiment is high.
problem Understanding when social media can predict financial market volatility.
method Cluster analysis of social and financial variables using information theory.
result Social media is most informative about financial volatility when the ratio of bullish to bearish sentiment is high.
Paper improves gender detection on social media using deep learning.
problem Traditional classifiers struggle with social media data volume.
method Ensemble deep learning with multi-model architectures.
result Improved gender detection accuracy on social media posts.
New neural network boosts authorship verification on social media.
problem Challenges in verifying authorship of short, diverse social media messages.
method Proposes a new neural network topology for similarity learning.
result Significantly improved performance on author verification tasks.
Study examines how social media sentiment impacts biotech stocks.
problem Understanding the impact of social media on biotech stock prices.
method VADER sentiment analysis, ARIMA, and VAR models were used to forecast stock market performance.
result Complex interplay between tweet sentiment and stock market performance was identified.
SINN combines social science and deep learning for predicting opinion dynamics.
problem Predicting opinion dynamics in social networks using traditional models requires extensive calibration with real data.
method SINN integrates theoretical models and social media data using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and matrix factorization.
result SINN outperforms six baseline methods in predicting opinion dynamics on real-world and synthetic datasets.
Proposes a semi-supervised approach to predict user-level sentiments in social media.
problem Detect and analyze sentiment in social media, especially user-level sentiments.
method Semi-supervised approach using a heterogeneous graph built from social networks, incorporating user influences and multiple types of links.
result Predicts user-level sentiments for specific topics more effectively than previous supervised learning approaches.
Study discovers semantic patterns in consumer sentiment on social media.
problem Identifying semantic patterns in consumer sentiment expressed in tweets.
method Cosine similarity, K-means clustering, and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) were used.
result Identified latent topics representing consumer opinions on social media.
A new object detector identifies fashion items from social media photos.
problem Difficult to parse and classify fashion items from social media content.
method Pretrained unsupervised object detector on 24 categories from Open Images V4.
result 72.7% mAP on test dataset of 2.4K photos, outperforming state-of-the-art.
This research tackles unsupervised topic extraction in noisy social media data.
problem Capturing customer insights from social media data is challenging due to noise and heterogeneity.
method The research presents three nonparametric approaches based on the Variational Autoencoder framework: Embedded Dirichlet Process, Embedded Hierarchical Dirichlet Process, and time-aware Dynamic Embedded Dirichlet Process.
result The models achieve equal to better performance than state-of-the-art methods in topic extraction from noisy social media data.
Study tackles hate speech against journalists on social media.
problem Hate speech against journalists on social media remains prevalent despite efforts.
method Defined journalist-specific hate speech, annotated tweets, trained deep learning models, and proposed an ensemble model.
result Proposed ensemble model outperforms individual models in detecting journalist-targeted hate speech.
Graph-Hist classifies social media graphs using feature histograms.
problem Classifying large, sparse social media graphs.
method Extracts latent features, bins nodes, and classifies based on multi-channel histograms.
result Improves bot detection in social media graphs.
New method detects psychosocial factors linked to gang violence on social media.
problem Detecting psychosocial factors in gang-related social media posts.
method Multimodal analysis of tweets with images and text, using various classification methods.
result Multimodal approach improves classification performance by 18%.
Paper uses Twitter data to analyze public opinion on economic issues during elections.
problem Limited, expensive, and time-consuming surveys for economic issues.
method Combines sentiment analysis and topic modeling for Twitter data.
result Effective analysis of economic concerns during the 2012 US presidential election.
Paper models user behavior in online social media using HMMs.
problem Understanding user behavior in online social media platforms.
method Leveraging Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) to represent user behavior, deriving a model-based distance, and using spectral clustering.
result Clusters of users with similar behavioral trajectories identified.
Study finds meme stocks have unique price and social media dynamics.
problem Exploring unique properties of meme stocks.
method Regime-switching cointegration model.
result Meme stocks exhibit a distinct 'mementum' compared to other high-volume stocks.
I-AID categorizes disaster tweets into useful information types.
problem Filtering useful information from social media during disasters.
method Multimodel approach using BERT, GAT, and Relation Network.
result I-AID outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in F1 scores.
Model detects cyberbullying by analyzing participant-vocabulary consistency.
problem Identifying cyberbullying on social media platforms.
method Formulated an objective function based on participant-vocabulary consistency to detect cyberbullying.
result The model can detect new bullying vocabulary, victims, and bullies.
Develops NFCF to reduce gender bias in social media recommendation systems.
problem Reduces gender bias in collaborative filtering systems on social media data.
method Pre-training and fine-tuning neural collaborative filtering with bias correction techniques.
result Achieves better performance and fairness in gender de-biased recommendations.
Analyzes ESG impact on stock market performance using social media and news data.
problem Understanding the impact of ESG news on stock market performance.
method Summarized live ESG data from social media and news, created sentiment index, calculated stock price changes, and compared sentiment to performance.
result ESG sentiment correlates with stock price changes, indicating its impact on market performance.
Predicting depression on Twitter using social media posts.
problem Identifying depression in online personas.
method Crowdsourced Twitter users, Bag of Words approach, statistical classifiers.
result 81% accuracy rate in depression risk estimation.
New dataset and models detect cryptocurrency bubbles using social media data.
problem Detecting anomalous market behavior in cryptocoins and meme stocks.
method Developed a novel multi-span identification task and sequence-to-sequence hyperbolic models.
result Models effectively detect cryptocoins and meme stocks bubbles in zero-shot settings.