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Agentic Detection of Online Conspiracies
Lior Biton, Oren Tsur
Conspiratorial discourse on social media is not always expressed through explicit claims or stable lexical markers. The same surface content may express endorsement, legitimate con…
Sympathetic Framing: Evaluating AI Alignment across Sociodemographic Groups
Haran Shani-Narkiss, Michael Fire, Oren Tsur
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly shaping how we consume information and form our worldview. This raises concerns beyond bias in AI: do LLMs grasp the emotional nuances…
Social Hatred: Efficient Multimodal Detection of Hatemongers
Tom Marzea, Abraham Israeli, Oren Tsur
Automatic detection of online hate speech serves as a crucial step in the detoxification of the online discourse. Moreover, accurate classification can promote a better understandi…
The Value of Nothing: Multimodal Extraction of Human Values Expressed by TikTok Influencers
Alina Starovolsky-Shitrit, Alon Neduva, Naama Appel Doron +3
Societal and personal values are transmitted to younger generations through interaction and exposure. Traditionally, children and adolescents learned values from parents, educators…
Acquired TASTE: Multimodal Stance Detection with Textual and Structural Embeddings
Guy Barel, Oren Tsur, Dan Vilenchik
Stance detection plays a pivotal role in enabling an extensive range of downstream applications, from discourse parsing to tracing the spread of fake news and the denial of scienti…
AggregHate: An Efficient Aggregative Approach for the Detection of Hatemongers on Social Platforms
Tom Marzea, Abraham Israeli, Oren Tsur
Automatic detection of online hate speech serves as a crucial step in the detoxification of the online discourse. Moreover, accurate classification can promote a better understandi…
With Flying Colors: Predicting Community Success in Large-scale Collaborative Campaigns
Abraham Israeli, Oren Tsur
Online communities develop unique characteristics, establish social norms, and exhibit distinct dynamics among their members. Activity in online communities often results in concre…
A Deeper (Autoregressive) Approach to Non-Convergent Discourse Parsing
Yoav Tulpan, Oren Tsur
Online social platforms provide a bustling arena for information-sharing and for multi-party discussions. Various frameworks for dialogic discourse parsing were developed and used…
Detecting Suicide Risk in Online Counseling Services: A Study in a Low-Resource Language
Amir Bialer, Daniel Izmaylov, Avi Segal +3
With the increased awareness of situations of mental crisis and their societal impact, online services providing emergency support are becoming commonplace in many countries. Compu…
This Must Be the Place: Predicting Engagement of Online Communities in a Large-scale Distributed Campaign
Abraham Israeli, Alexander Kremiansky, Oren Tsur
Understanding collective decision making at a large-scale, and elucidating how community organization and community dynamics shape collective behavior are at the heart of social sc…
Going Extreme: Comparative Analysis of Hate Speech in Parler and Gab
Abraham Israeli, Oren Tsur
Social platforms such as Gab and Parler, branded as `free-speech' networks, have seen a significant growth of their user base in recent years. This popularity is mainly attributed…
STEM: Unsupervised STructural EMbedding for Stance Detection
Ron Korenblum Pick, Vladyslav Kozhukhov, Dan Vilenchik +1
Stance detection is an important task, supporting many downstream tasks such as discourse parsing and modeling the propagation of fake news, rumors, and science denial. In this pap…
How to Do Things without Words: Modeling Semantic Drift of Emoji
Eyal Arviv, Oren Tsur
Emoji have become a significant part of our informal textual communication. Previous work addressing the societal and linguistic functions of emoji overlook the evolving meaning of…
With Measured Words: Simple Sentence Selection for Black-Box Optimization of Sentence Compression Algorithms
Yotam Shichel, Meir Kalech, Oren Tsur
Sentence Compression is the task of generating a shorter, yet grammatical version of a given sentence, preserving the essence of the original sentence. This paper proposes a Black-…
Discourse Parsing of Contentious, Non-Convergent Online Discussions
Stepan Zakharov, Omri Hadar, Tovit Hakak +3
Online discourse is often perceived as polarized and unproductive. While some conversational discourse parsing frameworks are available, they do not naturally lend themselves to th…
It's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate: Using the Echo in Modeling Dynamics of Racist Online Communities
Eyal Arviv, Simo Hanouna, Oren Tsur
The (((echo))) symbol -- triple parenthesis surrounding a name, made it to mainstream social networks in early 2016, with the intensification of the U.S. Presidential race. It was…