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20202022
most citedInterval-censored Transformer Hawkes: Detecting Information Operations using the Reaction of Social Systems

14 citations · 31 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.SI2022★ 14 cited

Interval-censored Transformer Hawkes: Detecting Information Operations using the Reaction of Social Systems

Quyu Kong, Pio Calderon, Rohit Ram +2

Social media is being increasingly weaponized by state-backed actors to elicit reactions, push narratives and sway public opinion. These are known as Information Operations (IO). T…

cs.SI2022

Opinion Market Model: Stemming Far-Right Opinion Spread using Positive Interventions

Pio Calderon, Rohit Ram, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

Online extremism has severe societal consequences, including normalizing hate speech, user radicalization, and increased social divisions. Various mitigation strategies have been e…

cs.CY2022★ 2 cited

Practical Guidelines for Ideology Detection Pipelines and Psychosocial Applications

Rohit Ram, Emma Thomas, David Kernot +1

Online ideology detection is crucial for downstream tasks, like countering ideologically motivated violent extremism and modeling opinion dynamics. However, two significant issues…

cs.SI2021

Conductance and Influence-Capital: Modeling Online Social Influence

Rohit Ram, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

Human interactions are mediated by social influence. During crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, social influence determines whether life-saving information is adopted or immunizatio…

cs.CY2020★ 6 cited

Birdspotter: A Tool for Analyzing and Labeling Twitter Users

Rohit Ram, Quyu Kong, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

The impact of online social media on societal events and institutions is profound; and with the rapid increases in user uptake, we are just starting to understand its ramifications…

cs.SI2020★ 9 cited

Evently: Modeling and Analyzing Reshare Cascades with Hawkes Processes

Quyu Kong, Rohit Ram, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

Modeling online discourse dynamics is a core activity in understanding the spread of information, both offline and online, and emergent online behavior. There is currently a discon…