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20102019
most citedDetecting and Tracking the Spread of Astroturf Memes in Microblog Streams

542 citations · 1.6k across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2019★ 2 cited

Considerations for the Interpretation of Bias Measures of Word Embeddings

Inom Mirzaev, Anthony Schulte, Michael Conover +1

Word embedding spaces are powerful tools for capturing latent semantic relationships between terms in corpora, and have become widely popular for building state-of-the-art natural…

cs.SI2019★ 394 cited

Global labor flow network reveals the hierarchical organization and dynamics of geo-industrial clusters in the world economy

Jaehyuk Park, Ian Wood, Elise Jing +4

Groups of firms often achieve a competitive advantage through the formation of geo-industrial clusters. Although many exemplary clusters, such as Hollywood or Silicon Valley, have…

cs.IR2018★ 4 cited

Pangloss: Fast Entity Linking in Noisy Text Environments

Michael Conover, Matthew Hayes, Scott Blackburn +2

Entity linking is the task of mapping potentially ambiguous terms in text to their constituent entities in a knowledge base like Wikipedia. This is useful for organizing content, e…

cs.CY2013★ 211 cited

The Digital Evolution of Occupy Wall Street

Michael D. Conover, Emilio Ferrara, Filippo Menczer +1

We examine the temporal evolution of digital communication activity relating to the American anti-capitalist movement Occupy Wall Street. Using a high-volume sample from the microb…

cs.CY2013★ 155 cited

The Geospatial Characteristics of a Social Movement Communication Network

Michael D. Conover, Clayton Davis, Emilio Ferrara +3

Social movements rely in large measure on networked communication technologies to organize and disseminate information relating to the movements' objectives. In this work we seek t…

cs.SI2012★ 239 cited

Partisan Asymmetries in Online Political Activity

Michael D. Conover, Bruno Gonçalves, Alessandro Flammini +1

We examine partisan differences in the behavior, communication patterns and social interactions of more than 18,000 politically-active Twitter users to produce evidence that points…