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20122024
most citedNetSpam: a Network-based Spam Detection Framework for Reviews in Online Social Media

142 citations · 213 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL20222 cited

BERT-based Ensemble Approaches for Hate Speech Detection

Khouloud Mnassri, Praboda Rajapaksha, Reza Farahbakhsh +1

With the freedom of communication provided in online social media, hate speech has increasingly generated. This leads to cyber conflicts affecting social life at the individual and…

cs.CL20213 cited

Transfer Learning for Multi-lingual Tasks -- a Survey

Amir Reza Jafari, Behnam Heidary, Reza Farahbakhsh +2

These days different platforms such as social media provide their clients from different backgrounds and languages the possibility to connect and exchange information. It is not su…

cs.SI2020

Characterising and Detecting Sponsored Influencer Posts on Instagram

Koosha Zarei, Damilola Ibosiola, Reza Farahbakhsh +4

Recent years have seen a new form of advertisement campaigns emerge: those involving so-called social media influencers. These influencers accept money in return for promoting prod…

cs.SI2020

Impersonation on Social Media: A Deep Neural Approach to Identify Ingenuine Content

Koosha Zarei, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi +1

Impersonators are playing an important role in the production and propagation of the content on Online Social Networks, notably on Instagram. These entities are nefarious fake acco…

cs.SI2020

Hate Speech Detection and Racial Bias Mitigation in Social Media based on BERT model

Marzieh Mozafari, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi

Disparate biases associated with datasets and trained classifiers in hateful and abusive content identification tasks have raised many concerns recently. Although the problem of bi…

cs.SI202058 cited

A First Instagram Dataset on COVID-19

Koosha Zarei, Reza Farahbakhsh, Noel Crespi +1

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak is drastically shaping and reshaping many aspects of our life, with a huge impact on our social life. In this era of lockdown pol…