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20202025
most citedValidating daily social media macroscopes of emotions

47 citations · 80 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2025

The Collective Turing Test: Large Language Models Can Generate Realistic Multi-User Discussions

Azza Bouleimen, Giordano De Marzo, Taehee Kim +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new avenues to simulate online communities and social media. Potential applications range from testing the design of content recommendation algor…

cs.HC2023★ 14 cited

AI could create a perfect storm of climate misinformation

Victor Galaz, Hannah Metzler, Stefan Daume +3

We are in the midst of a transformation of the digital news ecosystem. The expansion of online social networks, the influence of recommender systems, increased automation, and new…

cs.CL2023

LEIA: Linguistic Embeddings for the Identification of Affect

Segun Taofeek Aroyehun, Lukas Malik, Hannah Metzler +3

The wealth of text data generated by social media has enabled new kinds of analysis of emotions with language models. These models are often trained on small and costly datasets of…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Detecting potentially harmful and protective suicide-related content on twitter: A machine learning approach

Hannah Metzler, Hubert Baginski, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler +1

Research shows that exposure to suicide-related news media content is associated with suicide rates, with some content characteristics likely having harmful and others potentially…

cs.SI2021★ 47 cited

Validating daily social media macroscopes of emotions

Max Pellert, Hannah Metzler, Michael Matzenberger +1

To study emotions at the macroscopic level, affective scientists have made extensive use of sentiment analysis on social media text. However, this approach can suffer from a series…

cs.SI2021★ 16 cited

Social media emotion macroscopes reflect emotional experiences in society at large

David Garcia, Max Pellert, Jana Lasser +1

Social media generate data on human behaviour at large scales and over long periods of time, posing a complementary approach to traditional methods in the social sciences. Millions…

cs.CY2020

Dashboard of sentiment in Austrian social media during COVID-19

Max Pellert, Jana Lasser, Hannah Metzler +1

To track online emotional expressions of the Austrian population close to real-time during the COVID-19 pandemic, we build a self-updating monitor of emotion dynamics using digital…