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Which side are you on? Insider-Outsider classification in conspiracy-theoretic social media
Pavan Holur, Tianyi Wang, Shadi Shahsavari +2
Social media is a breeding ground for threat narratives and related conspiracy theories. In these, an outside group threatens the integrity of an inside group, leading to the emerg…
Modeling Social Readers: Novel Tools for Addressing Reception from Online Book Reviews
Pavan Holur, Shadi Shahsavari, Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh +2
Readers' responses to literature have received scant attention in computational literary studies. The rise of social media offers an opportunity to capture a segment of these respo…
Conspiracy in the Time of Corona: Automatic detection of Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories in Social Media and the News
Shadi Shahsavari, Pavan Holur, Timothy R. Tangherlini +1
Rumors and conspiracy theories thrive in environments of low confidence and low trust. Consequently, it is not surprising that ones related to the Covid-19 pandemic are proliferati…
An Automated Pipeline for Character and Relationship Extraction from Readers' Literary Book Reviews on Goodreads.com
Shadi Shahsavari, Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh, Behnam Shahbazi +5
Reader reviews of literary fiction on social media, especially those in persistent, dedicated forums, create and are in turn driven by underlying narrative frameworks. In their com…