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20172023
most citedA Web of Hate: Tackling Hateful Speech in Online Social Spaces

110 citations · 147 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.SI2023★ 3 cited

The Invasion of Ukraine Viewed through TikTok: A Dataset

Benjamin Steel, Sara Parker, Derek Ruths

We present a dataset of video descriptions, comments, and user statistics, from the social media platform TikTok, centred around the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, an event that laun…

cs.CL2022

Enriching Abusive Language Detection with Community Context

Jana Kurrek, Haji Mohammad Saleem, Derek Ruths

Uses of pejorative expressions can be benign or actively empowering. When models for abuse detection misclassify these expressions as derogatory, they inadvertently censor producti…

cs.CY2020★ 1 cited

Legends: Folklore on Reddit

Caitrin Armstrong, Derek Ruths

In this paper we introduce Reddit legends, a collection of venerated old posts that have become famous on Reddit. To establish the utility of Reddit legends for both computational…

cs.CY2020★ 1 cited

The Residence History Inference Problem

Derek Ruths, Caitrin Armstrong

The use of online user traces for studies of human mobility has received significant attention in recent years. This growing body of work, and the more general importance of human…

cs.CL2019

Assessing Partisan Traits of News Text Attributions

Logan Martel, Edward Newell, Drew Margolin +1

On the topic of journalistic integrity, the current state of accurate, impartial news reporting has garnered much debate in context to the 2016 US Presidential Election. In pursuit…

cs.SI2018★ 32 cited

The Aftermath of Disbanding an Online Hateful Community

Haji Mohammad Saleem, Derek Ruths

Harassing and hateful speech in online spaces has become a common problem for platform maintainers and their users. The toxicity created by such content can discourage user partici…