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20122022
most citedVirality Prediction and Community Structure in Social Networks

516 citations · 639 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2022★ 16 cited

A Holistic Approach to Undesired Content Detection in the Real World

Todor Markov, Chong Zhang, Sandhini Agarwal +5

We present a holistic approach to building a robust and useful natural language classification system for real-world content moderation. The success of such a system relies on a ch…

physics.soc-ph2015

Attention on Weak Ties in Social and Communication Networks

Lilian Weng, Márton Karsai, Nicola Perra +2

Granovetter's weak tie theory of social networks is built around two central hypotheses. The first states that strong social ties carry the large majority of interaction events; th…

cs.SI2014★ 35 cited

Predicting Successful Memes using Network and Community Structure

Lilian Weng, Filippo Menczer, Yong-Yeol Ahn

We investigate the predictability of successful memes using their early spreading patterns in the underlying social networks. We propose and analyze a comprehensive set of features…

cs.SI2014★ 71 cited

Topicality and Social Impact: Diverse Messages but Focused Messengers

Lilian Weng, Filippo Menczer

Are users who comment on a variety of matters more likely to achieve high influence than those who delve into one focused field? Do general Twitter hashtags, such as #lol, tend to…

cs.SI2013★ 516 cited

Virality Prediction and Community Structure in Social Networks

Lilian Weng, Filippo Menczer, Yong-Yeol Ahn

How does network structure affect diffusion? Recent studies suggest that the answer depends on the type of contagion. Complex contagions, unlike infectious diseases (simple contagi…

cs.SI2013

The Role of Information Diffusion in the Evolution of Social Networks

Lilian Weng, Jacob Ratkiewicz, Nicola Perra +6

Every day millions of users are connected through online social networks, generating a rich trove of data that allows us to study the mechanisms behind human interactions. Triadic…

cs.HC2012★ 1 cited

Context Visualization for Social Bookmark Management

Lilian Weng, Filippo Menczer

We present the design of a new social bookmark manager, named GalViz, as part of the interface of the GiveA-Link system. Unlike the interfaces of traditional social tagging tools,…