LDA-Link links sequences with sparse or no common events across data sets.
problem Linking sequences with no common events in different data sets.
method Formalizes sequence linkage problem, uses LDA-Link model based on Split-Document model.
result Robust sequence linkage even when sequences have sparse or no common events.
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.
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.
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.
Online social networks offer a new way to investigate financial markets' dynamics by enabling the large-scale analysis of investors' collective behavior. We provide empirical evidence that suggests social media and stock markets have a nonlinear causal relationship. We take advantage of an extensive data set composed o…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Study uses social media to analyze COVID-19 impact.
problem Understanding the global impact of COVID-19.
method Machine learning and linguistic tools to analyze social media posts.
result Automatic detection of positive reports of COVID-19.
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.
Model financial markets with social media influences using hierarchical networks.
problem Understanding social media's impact on financial markets.
method Agent-based model with hierarchical influence network.
result Model accurately simulates real-world financial market behaviors.
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.
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.
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.
Advances text explanation method for social media attacks.
problem Identifying personal attacks in social media comments.
method Adversarial approach to extract high-recall explanations from neural text classifiers.
result Demonstrates the importance of manually setting a default behavior for the model.
New tool detects weak and strong Islamophobic hate speech on social media.
problem Detecting Islamophobic hate speech on social media is challenging due to its varied nature.
method Built a multi-class classifier distinguishing between non-Islamophobic, weak Islamophobic, and strong Islamophobic content using GloVe word embeddings.
result Accuracy of 77.6% and balanced accuracy of 83% on a dataset of 109,488 tweets.
Detecting depression early from social media texts.
problem Early diagnosis and prevention of depression.
method Topic analysis and learned confidence scores.
result Achieved good results compared to state of the art.
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.
The study identifies and analyzes cryptocurrency scams on social media.
problem Cryptocurrency fraud, especially 'pump and dump' scams, on social media platforms.
method Combining social media data to identify and predict scams, analyzing bot activity.
result Significant increase in bot activity during pump attempts.
Two computational models analyze political topics in social media tweets.
problem Measuring political attention in social media is labor-intensive and restrictive.
method Two computational models: supervised classifier and unsupervised topic model.
result Models provide different benefits: supervised classifier reduces labor, unsupervised model uncovers political and non-political uses.
Paper detects social media influencers affecting financial markets.
problem Impact of social media influencers on financial markets.
method Developed an early warning system for detecting suspicious social network activity.
result Discrepancy in meme and non-meme stocks' reactions to social networks.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
A framework traces ideology changes on social media during the 2016 U.S. election.
problem Understanding how ideology changed on social media during the 2016 U.S. election.
method Jointly estimating ideology of users and news sites, tracing changes over time.
result Both liberal and conservative users became more polarized over time.
Sentiment analysis from news and social media predicts forex market movements.
problem Forecasting forex market movements using sentiment analysis.
method Lexicon-based analysis and Naive Bayes machine learning.
result Sentiment analysis is effective in predicting forex market movements.
Social media analysis improves disaster situational awareness.
problem Limited traditional methods for disaster SA.
method Text mining methods like sentiment and topic modeling.
result TwiSA framework effectively tracks negative concerns during disasters.
GCAN detects fake news on social media with explanations.
problem Detecting fake news on social media with explanations.
method Graph-aware Co-Attention Networks (GCAN).
result GCAN significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy.
Detects rumours using news propagation patterns and user interactions.
problem Rumours' negative impact on social media platforms.
method Deep learning approach that learns user representations and temporal interactions.
result State-of-the-art performance in rumour detection on Twitter and Weibo datasets.