3 papers
cs.SI2026
Causal Effects of Trigger Words in Social Media Discussions: A Large-Scale Case Study about UK Politics on Reddit
Dimosthenis Antypas, Christian Arnold, Nedjma Ousidhoum +2
Political debates on social media often escalate quickly, leading to increased engagement as well as more emotional and polarised exchanges. Trigger points (Mau, Lux, and Westheuse…
cs.CL2025
Alignment Helps Make the Most of Multimodal Data
Christian Arnold, Andreas Küpfer
Political scientists increasingly analyze multimodal data. However, the effective analysis of such data requires aligning information across different modalities. In our paper, we…
cs.CV2024
Structuring Quantitative Image Analysis with Object Prominence
Christian Arnold, Andreas Küpfer
When photographers or media professionals compose an image, they make deliberate choices about what to foreground and what to background, shaping how viewers interpret visual conte…