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Constructing a Dataset to Support Agent-Based Modeling of Online Interactions: Users, Topics, and Interaction Networks
Abdul Sittar, Miha Cesnovar, Alenka Gucek +1
Agent-based modeling (ABM) provides a powerful framework for exploring how individual behaviors and interactions give rise to collective social dynamics. However, most ABMs rely on…
Agent-Based Simulations of Online Political Discussions: A Case Study on Elections in Germany
Abdul Sittar, Simon Münker, Fabio Sartori +5
User engagement on social media platforms is influenced by historical context, time constraints, and reward-driven interactions. This study presents an agent-based simulation appro…
Synthetic News Generation for Fake News Classification
Abdul Sittar, Luka Golob, Mateja Smiljanic
This study explores the generation and evaluation of synthetic fake news through fact based manipulations using large language models (LLMs). We introduce a novel methodology that…
BAR-Analytics: A Web-based Platform for Analyzing Information Spreading Barriers in News: Comparative Analysis Across Multiple Barriers and Events
Abdul Sittar, Dunja Mladenic, Alenka Gucek +1
This paper presents BAR-Analytics, a web-based, open-source platform designed to analyze news dissemination across geographical, economic, political, and cultural boundaries. Using…
Classification of news spreading barriers
Abdul Sittar, Dunja Mladenic, Marko Grobelnik
News media is one of the most effective mechanisms for spreading information internationally, and many events from different areas are internationally relevant. However, news cover…
Profiling the news spreading barriers using news headlines
Abdul Sittar, Dunja Mladenic, Marko Grobelnik
News headlines can be a good data source for detecting the news spreading barriers in news media, which may be useful in many real-world applications. In this paper, we utilize sem…
Classification of Cross-cultural News Events
Abdul Sittar, Dunja Mladenic
We present a methodology to support the analysis of culture from text such as news events and demonstrate its usefulness on categorizing news events from different categories (soci…
Using the profile of publishers to predict barriers across news articles
Abdul Sittar, Dunja Mladenic
Detection of news propagation barriers, being economical, cultural, political, time zonal, or geographical, is still an open research issue. We present an approach to barrier detec…
Political and Economic Patterns in COVID-19 News: From Lockdown to Vaccination
Abdul Sittar, Daniela Major, Caio Mello +2
The purpose of this study is to analyse COVID-19 related news published across different geographical places, in order to gain insights in reporting differences. The COVID-19 pande…
Analysis of information cascading and propagation barriers across distinctive news events
Abdul Sittar, Dunja Mladenic, Marko Grobelnik
News reporting on events that occur in our society can have different styles and structures as well as different dynamics of news spreading over time. News publishers have the pote…