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Applying the Ego Network Model to Cross-Target Stance Detection
Jack Tacchi, Parisa Jamadi Khiabani, Arkaitz Zubiaga +2
Understanding human interactions and social structures is an incredibly important task, especially in such an interconnected world. One task that facilitates this is Stance Detecti…
HTIM: Hybrid Text-Interaction Modeling for Broadening Political Leaning Inference in Social Media
Joseba Fernandez de Landa, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Rodrigo Agerri
Political leaning can be defined as the inclination of an individual towards certain political orientations that align with their personal beliefs. Political leaning inference has…
Generalizing Political Leaning Inference to Multi-Party Systems: Insights from the UK Political Landscape
Joseba Fernandez de Landa, Arkaitz Zubiaga, Rodrigo Agerri
An ability to infer the political leaning of social media users can help in gathering opinion polls thereby leading to a better understanding of public opinion. While there has bee…
The emojification of sentiment on social media: Collection and analysis of a longitudinal Twitter sentiment dataset
Wenjie Yin, Rabab Alkhalifa, Arkaitz Zubiaga
Social media, as a means for computer-mediated communication, has been extensively used to study the sentiment expressed by users around events or topics. There is however a gap in…
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Public Perception of the Opportunities and Challenges of the Internet of Things
Arkaitz Zubiaga, Rob Procter, Carsten Maple
The Internet of Things (or IoT), which enables the networked interconnection of everyday objects, is becoming increasingly popular in many aspects of our lives ranging from enterta…
Analysing How People Orient to and Spread Rumours in Social Media by Looking at Conversational Threads
Arkaitz Zubiaga, Maria Liakata, Rob Procter +2
As breaking news unfolds people increasingly rely on social media to stay abreast of the latest updates. The use of social media in such situations comes with the caveat that new i…
Towards Detecting Rumours in Social Media
Arkaitz Zubiaga, Maria Liakata, Rob Procter +2
The spread of false rumours during emergencies can jeopardise the well-being of citizens as they are monitoring the stream of news from social media to stay abreast of the latest u…
Tweet, but Verify: Epistemic Study of Information Verification on Twitter
Arkaitz Zubiaga, Heng Ji
While Twitter provides an unprecedented opportunity to learn about breaking news and current events as they happen, it often produces skepticism among users as not all the informat…