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Decomposing the Fundamentals of Creepy Stories
Sakshi Goel, Haripriya Dharmala, Yuchen Zhang +1
Fear is a universal concept; people crave it in urban legends, scary movies, and modern stories. Open questions remain, however, about why these stories are scary and more generall…
Using Emotion Embeddings to Transfer Knowledge Between Emotions, Languages, and Annotation Formats
Georgios Chochlakis, Gireesh Mahajan, Sabyasachee Baruah +3
The need for emotional inference from text continues to diversify as more and more disciplines integrate emotions into their theories and applications. These needs include inferrin…
Quantifying How Hateful Communities Radicalize Online Users
Matheus Schmitz, Keith Burghardt, Goran Muric
While online social media offers a way for ignored or stifled voices to be heard, it also allows users a platform to spread hateful speech. Such speech usually originates in fringe…
Leveraging Label Correlations in a Multi-label Setting: A Case Study in Emotion
Georgios Chochlakis, Gireesh Mahajan, Sabyasachee Baruah +3
Detecting emotions expressed in text has become critical to a range of fields. In this work, we investigate ways to exploit label correlations in multi-label emotion recognition mo…
Analyzing urban scaling laws in the United States over 115 years
Keith Burghardt, Johannes H. Uhl, Kristina Lerman +1
The scaling relations between city attributes and population are emergent and ubiquitous aspects of urban growth. Quantifying these relations and understanding their theoretical fo…
Emotion Regulation and Dynamics of Moral Concerns During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic
Siyi Guo, Keith Burghardt, Ashwin Rao +1
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended daily life around the globe, posing a threat to public health. Intuitively, we expect that surging cases and deaths would lead to fear, distress a…