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Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia
Tiziano Piccardi, Miriam Redi, Giovanni Colavizza +1
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many users. As an encyclopedia, Wik…
Causal Effects of Brevity on Style and Success in Social Media
Kristina Gligoric, Ashton Anderson, Robert West
In online communities, where billions of people strive to propagate their messages, understanding how wording affects success is of primary importance. In this work, we are interes…
Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Raphael Ottoni, Robert West +2
Non-profits, as well as the media, have hypothesized the existence of a radicalization pipeline on YouTube, claiming that users systematically progress towards more extreme content…
Crosslingual Document Embedding as Reduced-Rank Ridge Regression
Martin Josifoski, Ivan S. Paskov, Hristo S. Paskov +2
There has recently been much interest in extending vector-based word representations to multiple languages, such that words can be compared across languages. In this paper, we shif…
Eliciting New Wikipedia Users' Interests via Automatically Mined Questionnaires: For a Warm Welcome, Not a Cold Start
Ramtin Yazdanian, Leila Zia, Jonathan Morgan +2
Every day, thousands of users sign up as new Wikipedia contributors. Once joined, these users have to decide which articles to contribute to, which users to seek out and learn from…
Hot Streaks on Social Media
Kiran Garimella, Robert West
Measuring the impact and success of human performance is common in various disciplines, including art, science, and sports. Quantifying impact also plays a key role on social media…