4 papers
Large Language Models Unpack Complex Political Opinions through Target-Stance Extraction
Ãzgür Togay, Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Florian Kunneman +1
Political polarization emerges from a complex interplay of beliefs about policies, figures, and issues. However, most computational analyses reduce discourse to coarse partisan lab…
Negative Ties Highlight Hidden Extremes in Social Media Polarization
Elena Candellone, Shazia'Ayn Babul, Ãzgür Togay +2
Human interactions in the online world comprise a combination of positive and negative exchanges. These diverse interactions can be captured using signed network representations, w…
Community detection in bipartite signed networks is highly dependent on parameter choice
Elena Candellone, Erik-Jan van Kesteren, Sofia Chelmi +1
Decision-making processes often involve voting. Human interactions with exogenous entities such as legislations or products can be effectively modeled as two-mode (bipartite) signe…
The Impact of School and Family Networks on COVID-19 Infections Among Dutch Students: A Study Using Population-Level Registry Data
Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Christine Hedde-von Westernhagen, Tom Emery +1
Understanding the impact of different social interactions is key to improving epidemic models. Here, we use extensive registry data -- including PCR test results and population-lev…