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Salience-Aware Event Chain Modeling for Narrative Understanding
Xiyang Zhang, Muhao Chen, Jonathan May
Storytelling, whether via fables, news reports, documentaries, or memoirs, can be thought of as the communication of interesting and related events that, taken together, form a con…
Social Media Study of Public Opinions on Potential COVID-19 Vaccines: Informing Dissent, Disparities, and Dissemination
Hanjia Lyu, Junda Wang, Wei Wu +4
The current development of vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 is unprecedented. Little is known, however, about the nuanced public opinions on the vaccines on social media. We adopt a human-g…
Monitoring Depression Trend on Twitter during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Yipeng Zhang, Hanjia Lyu, Yubao Liu +3
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected people's daily lives and caused tremendous economic loss worldwide. However, its influence on people's mental health conditions has not…
Tactics and Tallies: A Study of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign Using Twitter 'Likes'
Yu Wang, Xiyang Zhang, Jiebo Luo
We propose a framework to measure, evaluate, and rank campaign effectiveness in the ongoing 2016 U.S. presidential election. Using Twitter data collected from Sept. 2015 to Jan. 20…
When Follow is Just One Click Away: Understanding Twitter Follow Behavior in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Yu Wang, Xiyang Zhang, Jiebo Luo
Motivated by the two paradoxical facts that the marginal cost of following one extra candidate is close to zero and that the majority of Twitter users choose to follow only one or…
Tactics and Tallies: Inferring Voter Preferences in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Primaries Using Sparse Learning
Yu Wang, Yang Feng, Xiyang Zhang +1
In this paper, we propose a web-centered framework to infer voter preferences for the 2016 U.S. presidential primaries. Using Twitter data collected from Sept. 2015 to March 2016,…
Gender Politics in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election: A Computer Vision Approach
Yu Wang, Yang Feng, Xiyang Zhang +1
Gender is playing an important role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, especially with Hillary Clinton becoming the first female presidential nominee and Donald Trump being fr…
Will Sanders Supporters Jump Ship for Trump? Fine-grained Analysis of Twitter Followers
Yu Wang, Yang Feng, Xiyang Zhang +2
In this paper, we study the likelihood of Bernie Sanders supporters voting for Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton. Building from a unique time-series dataset of the three cand…
Voting with Feet: Who are Leaving Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump?
Yu Wang, Yuncheng Li, Quanzeng You +3
From a crowded field with 17 candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have emerged as the two front-runners in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. The two candidates each boas…