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DLAMA: A Framework for Curating Culturally Diverse Facts for Probing the Knowledge of Pretrained Language Models
Amr Keleg, Walid Magdy
A few benchmarking datasets have been released to evaluate the factual knowledge of pretrained language models. These benchmarks (e.g., LAMA, and ParaRel) are mainly developed in E…
Twitter has a Binary Privacy Setting, are Users Aware of How It Works?
Dilara Keküllüoğlu, Kami Vaniea, Maria K. Wolters +1
Twitter accounts are public by default, but Twitter gives the option to create protected accounts, where only approved followers can see their tweets. The publicly visible informat…
AX-MABSA: A Framework for Extremely Weakly Supervised Multi-label Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis
Sabyasachi Kamila, Walid Magdy, Sourav Dutta +1
Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis is a dominant research area with potential applications in social media analytics, business, finance, and health. Prior works in this area are prima…
Don't Take it Personally: Analyzing Gender and Age Differences in Ratings of Online Humor
J. A. Meaney, Steven R. Wilson, Luis Chiruzzo +1
Computational humor detection systems rarely model the subjectivity of humor responses, or consider alternative reactions to humor - namely offense. We analyzed a large dataset of…
From an Authentication Question to a Public Social Event: Characterizing Birthday Sharing on Twitter
Dilara Keküllüoğlu, Walid Magdy, Kami Vaniea
Date of birth (DOB) has historically been considered as private information and safe to use for authentication, but recent years have seen a shift towards wide public sharing. In t…
Identity Signals in Emoji Do not Influence Perception of Factual Truth on Twitter
Alexander Robertson, Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater
Prior work has shown that Twitter users use skin-toned emoji as an act of self-representation to express their racial/ethnic identity. We test whether this signal of identity can i…
Black or White but never neutral: How readers perceive identity from yellow or skin-toned emoji
Alexander Robertson, Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater
Research in sociology and linguistics shows that people use language not only to express their own identity but to understand the identity of others. Recent work established a conn…
Holy Tweets: Exploring the Sharing of Quran on Twitter
Norah Abokhodair, Abdelrahim Elmadany, Walid Magdy
While social media offer users a platform for self-expression, identity exploration, and community management, among other functions, they also offer space for religious practice a…
Examining the Role of Mood Patterns in Predicting Self-Reported Depressive symptoms
Lucia Lushi Chen, Walid Magdy, Heather Whalley +1
Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Initial efforts to detect depression signals from social media posts have shown promising results. Given the high internal…
Stance Detection on Social Media: State of the Art and Trends
Abeer AlDayel, Walid Magdy
Stance detection on social media is an emerging opinion mining paradigm for various social and political applications in which sentiment analysis may be sub-optimal. There has been…
Analyzing Temporal Relationships between Trending Terms on Twitter and Urban Dictionary Activity
Steven R. Wilson, Walid Magdy, Barbara McGillivray +1
As an online, crowd-sourced, open English-language slang dictionary, the Urban Dictionary platform contains a wealth of opinions, jokes, and definitions of terms, phrases, acronyms…
The Effect of Sociocultural Variables on Sarcasm Communication Online
Silviu Vlad Oprea, Walid Magdy
Online social networks (OSN) play an essential role for connecting people and allowing them to communicate online. OSN users share their thoughts, moments, and news with their netw…
iSarcasm: A Dataset of Intended Sarcasm
Silviu Oprea, Walid Magdy
We consider the distinction between intended and perceived sarcasm in the context of textual sarcasm detection. The former occurs when an utterance is sarcastic from the perspectiv…
Exploring Author Context for Detecting Intended vs Perceived Sarcasm
Silviu Oprea, Walid Magdy
We investigate the impact of using author context on textual sarcasm detection. We define author context as the embedded representation of their historical posts on Twitter and sug…
Arabs and Atheism: Religious Discussions in the Arab Twittersphere
Youssef Al Hariri, Walid Magdy, Maria Wolters
Most previous research on online discussions of atheism has focused on atheism within a Christian context. In contrast, discussions about atheism in the Arab world and from Islamic…
Assessing Sentiment of the Expressed Stance on Social Media
Abeer Aldayel, Walid Magdy
Stance detection is the task of inferring viewpoint towards a given topic or entity either being supportive or opposing. One may express a viewpoint towards a topic by using positi…
Your Stance is Exposed! Analysing Possible Factors for Stance Detection on Social Media
Abeer Aldayel, Walid Magdy
To what extent user's stance towards a given topic could be inferred? Most of the studies on stance detection have focused on analysing user's posts on a given topic to predict the…
Trump vs. Hillary: What went Viral during the 2016 US Presidential Election
Kareem Darwish, Walid Magdy, Tahar Zanouda
In this paper, we present quantitative and qualitative analysis of the top retweeted tweets (viral tweets) pertaining to the US presidential elections from September 1, 2016 to Ele…
Fake it till you make it: Fishing for Catfishes
Walid Magdy, Yehia Elkhatib, Gareth Tyson +2
Many adult content websites incorporate social networking features. Although these are popular, they raise significant challenges, including the potential for users to "catfish", i…
UK General Election 2017: a Twitter Analysis
Laura Cram, Clare Llewellyn, Robin Hill +1
This work is produced by researchers at the Neuropolitics Research Lab, School of Social and Political Science and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. In this…
Trump vs. Hillary Analyzing Viral Tweets during US Presidential Elections 2016
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish
In this paper, we provide a quantitative and qualitative analyses of the viral tweets related to the US presidential election. In our study, we focus on analyzing the most retweete…
Attitudes towards Refugees in Light of the Paris Attacks
Kareem Darwish, Walid Magdy
The Paris attacks prompted a massive response on social media including Twitter. This paper explores the immediate response of English speakers on Twitter towards Middle Eastern re…
Quantifying Public Response towards Islam on Twitter after Paris Attacks
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, Norah Abokhodair
The Paris terrorist attacks occurred on November 13, 2015 prompted a massive response on social media including Twitter, with millions of posted tweets in the first few hours after…
Bridging Social Media via Distant Supervision
Walid Magdy, Hassan Sajjad, Tarek El-Ganainy +1
Microblog classification has received a lot of attention in recent years. Different classification tasks have been investigated, most of them focusing on classifying microblogs int…