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Investigating and Comparing Discussion Topics in Multilingual Underground Forums
Mariella Mischinger, Vahid Ghafouri, Sergio Pastrana +1
Underground forums play a crucial role in the criminal ecosystem, facilitating the exchange of knowledge and the trade of illegal tools and services. By analyzing the skills, motiv…
Framing Migration: A Computational Analysis of UK Parliamentary Discourse
Vahid Ghafouri, Robert McNeil, Teodor Yankov +4
We present a large-scale computational analysis of migration-related discourse in UK parliamentary debates spanning over 75 years and compare it with US congressional discourse. Us…
Unravelling the Probabilistic Forest: Arbitrage in Prediction Markets
Oriol Saguillo, Vahid Ghafouri, Lucianna Kiffer +1
Polymarket is a prediction market platform where users can speculate on future events by trading shares tied to specific outcomes, known as conditions. Each market is associated wi…
Cross-Partisan Interactions on Twitter
Yusuf Mücahit Çetinkaya, Vahid Ghafouri, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil +2
Many social media studies argue that social media creates echo chambers where some users only interact with peers of the same political orientation. However, recent studies suggest…
A Holistic Indicator of Polarization to Measure Online Sexism
Vahid Ghafouri, Jose Such, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
The online trend of the manosphere and feminist discourse on social networks requires a holistic measure of the level of sexism in an online community. This indicator is important…
AI in the Gray: Exploring Moderation Policies in Dialogic Large Language Models vs. Human Answers in Controversial Topics
Vahid Ghafouri, Vibhor Agarwal, Yong Zhang +3
The introduction of ChatGPT and the subsequent improvement of Large Language Models (LLMs) have prompted more and more individuals to turn to the use of ChatBots, both for informat…
Lady and the Tramp Nextdoor: Online Manifestations of Economic Inequalities in the Nextdoor Social Network
Waleed Iqbal, Vahid Ghafouri, Gareth Tyson +2
From health to education, income impacts a huge range of life choices. Earlier research has leveraged data from online social networks to study precisely this impact. In this paper…