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most citedPredictive Analysis on Twitter: Techniques and Applications

97 citations · 211 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.SI2020★ 1 cited

Comparing Suicide Risk Insights derived from Clinical and Social Media data

Rohith K. Thiruvalluru, Manas Gaur, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan +2

Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US and the 2nd leading cause of death among teenagers. Clinical and psychosocial factors contribute to suicide risk (SRFs), althou…

cs.SI2020

Exo-SIR: An Epidemiological Model to Analyze the Impact of Exogenous Infection of COVID-19 in India

Nirmal Kumar Sivaraman, Manas Gaur, Shivansh Baijal +3

Epidemiological models are the mathematical models that capture the dynamics of epidemics. The spread of the virus has two routes - exogenous and endogenous. The exogenous spread i…

cs.SI2020★ 25 cited

ALONE: A Dataset for Toxic Behavior among Adolescents on Twitter

Thilini Wijesiriwardene, Hale Inan, Ugur Kursuncu +5

The convenience of social media has also enabled its misuse, potentially resulting in toxic behavior. Nearly 66% of internet users have observed online harassment, and 41% claim pe…

cs.SI2020★ 3 cited

Depressive, Drug Abusive, or Informative: Knowledge-aware Study of News Exposure during COVID-19 Outbreak

Amanuel Alambo, Manas Gaur, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a serious adverse impact on the lives of people across the world. COVID-19 has exacerbated community-wide depression, and has led to increased drug…

cs.SI2019

Unsupervised Detection of Sub-events in Large Scale Disasters

Chidubem Arachie, Manas Gaur, Sam Anzaroot +3

Social media plays a major role during and after major natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes, large-scale fires, etc.), as people ``on the ground'' post useful information on what is…

cs.AI2019★ 17 cited

Knowledge Infused Learning (K-IL): Towards Deep Incorporation of Knowledge in Deep Learning

Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Amit Sheth

Learning the underlying patterns in data goes beyond instance-based generalization to external knowledge represented in structured graphs or networks. Deep learning that primarily…

cs.SI2019★ 50 cited

Modeling Islamist Extremist Communications on Social Media using Contextual Dimensions: Religion, Ideology, and Hate

Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Carlos Castillo +6

Terror attacks have been linked in part to online extremist content. Although tens of thousands of Islamist extremism supporters consume such content, they are a small fraction rel…

cs.SI2018

empathi: An ontology for Emergency Managing and Planning about Hazard Crisis

Manas Gaur, Saeedeh Shekarpour, Amelie Gyrard +1

In the domain of emergency management during hazard crises, having sufficient situational awareness information is critical. It requires capturing and integrating information from…

cs.IR2018★ 1 cited

A Hybrid Recommender System for Patient-Doctor Matchmaking in Primary Care

Qiwei Han, Mengxin Ji, Inigo Martinez de Rituerto de Troya +2

We partner with a leading European healthcare provider and design a mechanism to match patients with family doctors in primary care. We define the matchmaking process for several d…

cs.SI2018★ 13 cited

"What's ur type?" Contextualized Classification of User Types in Marijuana-related Communications using Compositional Multiview Embedding

Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Usha Lokala +5

With 93% of pro-marijuana population in US favoring legalization of medical marijuana, high expectations of a greater return for Marijuana stocks, and public actively sharing infor…

cs.SI2018★ 97 cited

Predictive Analysis on Twitter: Techniques and Applications

Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Usha Lokala +3

Predictive analysis of social media data has attracted considerable attention from the research community as well as the business world because of the essential and actionable info…

cs.SI2018★ 4 cited

What's my age?: Predicting Twitter User's Age using Influential Friend Network and DBpedia

Alan Smith, Manas Gaur

Social media is a rich source of user behavior and opinions. Twitter senses nearly 500 million tweets per day from 328 million users.An appropriate machine learning pipeline over t…

cs.CR2012

Software Security analysis, static and dynamic testing in java and C environment, a comparative study

Manas Gaur

The main stretch in the paper is buffer overflow anomaly occurring in major source codes, designed in various programming language. It describes the various as to how to improve yo…