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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…
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…
Message Distortion in Information Cascades
Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Kristina Gligorić, Robert West
Information diffusion is usually modeled as a process in which immutable pieces of information propagate over a network. In reality, however, messages are not immutable, but may be…
Latent Structure in Collaboration: the Case of Reddit r/place
Jérémie Rappaz, Michele Catasta, Robert West +1
Many Web platforms rely on user collaboration to generate high-quality content: Wiki, Q&A communities, etc. Understanding and modeling the different collaborative behaviors is ther…
How Constraints Affect Content: The Case of Twitter's Switch from 140 to 280 Characters
Kristina Gligorić, Ashton Anderson, Robert West
It is often said that constraints affect creative production, both in terms of form and quality. Online social media platforms frequently impose constraints on the content that use…
Quootstrap: Scalable Unsupervised Extraction of Quotation-Speaker Pairs from Large News Corpora via Bootstrapping
Dario Pavllo, Tiziano Piccardi, Robert West
We propose Quootstrap, a method for extracting quotations, as well as the names of the speakers who uttered them, from large news corpora. Whereas prior work has addressed this pro…