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Twitterrank: Finding Topic-Sensitive Influential T ...

2010

This article focuses on the problem of identifying influential Twitter users using Machine Learning (ML) techniques and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

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Solutions to Detect and Analyze Online Radicalizat ...

2013

This paper discusses automated methods for detecting online radicalization and radical communities on various platforms, from websites, to forums, to social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and others.

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$1.00 per RT #BostonMarathon #PrayForBoston: Analy ...

2013

This 2013 article analyzes content generated on Twitter during the attacks at the Boston Marathon in April 2013. The authors perform an in-depth characterization of what factors influenced malicious content and profiles becoming viral.

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Online Social Media in the Syria Conflict: Encompa ...

2014

This 2014 paper utilizes a form of network representation that incorporates multiple data views to uncover and categorize networks of accounts that fall into four broadly defined groups in the Syrian conflict.

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Lights, Camera, Jihad: Al-Shabaab’s Western Medi ...

2012

This netnographic study examines al-Shabaab’s Western media strategy. The authors focus their study on the group’s recruitment of Western Muslims through the analysis of primary sources, interviews in East Africa and a quantitative analysis of the group’s Twitter outputs.

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An Analysis of Interactions Within and Between Ext ...

2012

This article studied a selection of right-wing extremist (RWE) groups on Twitter. The authors looked at particular language-based networks as case studies, collecting Twitter data for groups across eight countries.

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Detecting Linguistic Markers for Radical Violence ...

December 2013

This article focuses on the use of linguistic “weak signals”—digital traces of intent—in social media as a tool of counterterrorism aimed at preventing lone-wolf attacks.

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Learning Similarity Metrics for Event Identificati ...

February 2010

The authors of this article propose a methodology for automatically identifying events and their associated user-contributed social media documents (such as those posted on Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook) to enable event browsing and search in state-of-the-art search engines.

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Beyond Trending Topics: Real-World Event Identific ...

2011

This paper examines approaches for analyzing Twitter messages to distinguish between those covering real-world events and non-event messages. To validate this work the authors applied their process to 2.6 million Twitter messages.

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Community Detection in Social Media

June 2011

This is a slideshow of the June 2011 lecture on the topic of community detection using graphs with a focus on Social Media applications.

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