3 papers
cs.SI2026
Layered Ego Networks in Email Communication: From Enron to the Jmail Archive
Francesco Di Cursi, Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti +1
Email archives offer a rare view of social relationships through repeated communication, but it remains unclear how well classical ego network layering applies to digital interacti…
cs.CL2025
Mind Reading or Misreading? LLMs on the Big Five Personality Test
Francesco Di Cursi, Chiara Boldrini, Marco Conti +1
We evaluate large language models (LLMs) for automatic personality prediction from text under the binary Five Factor Model (BIG5). Five models -- including GPT-4 and lightweight op…
cs.SI2024
A Herd of Young Mastodonts: the User-Centered Footprints of Newcomers After Twitter Acquisition
Francesco Di Cursi, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella +1
The tremendous success of major Online Social Networks (OSNs) platforms has raised increasing concerns about negative phenomena, such as mass control, fake news, and echo chambers.…