Computational Social Science & Natural Language Processing 2017

Notes:

Computational social science refers to the academic sub-disciplines concerned with computational approaches to the social sciences. (Scalable uncertainty management refers to the management of uncertain, incomplete or inconsistent information, such as the Web.*)

Analyzing domestic abuse
Application of big data for national security
Automated analysis of the us presidential elections using big data and network analysis
Computational sociolinguistics
Converting human rights primary source documents into data
Cultural analysis
Data-driven discovery
Digital journalism research
Gender discrimination
Heterogeneous evidence using neural networks
Human values
Identifying motivations
Political communication research
Science of the social
Social media dynamics
Tracking employment shocks
Twitter
Understand cultural processes

Resources:

dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/sum .. proceedings of the annual conference on scalable uncertainty management *

Wikipedia:

Computational social science (Computational social sciences)
Cultural studies (Cultural sciences)
Culturomics
Digital humanities
Digital journalism
Political communication
Quantitative research
Sentiment analysis
Simulated annealing
Social network analysis
Stylometry
Sociolinguistics

References:

Situated Intelligent Interactive Systems (2017)
The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (2017)
Root Cause Analysis of Miscommunication Hotspots in Spoken Dialogue Systems (2016)
Blogosphere and its Exploration (2015)
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SemEval-2017 task 4: Sentiment analysis in Twitter
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… User Information Demographic information in Twitter has been studied and analyzed using net- work analysis and natural language processing (NLP) techniques … Section 5 presents the results of the evaluation and discusses the techniques and the tools that the participants …

Using Twitter for demographic and social science research: tools for data collection and processing
TH McCormick, H Lee, N Cesare… – … methods & research, 2017 – journals.sagepub.com
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TACIT: An open-source text analysis, crawling, and interpretation tool
M Dehghani, KM Johnson, J Garten, R Boghrati… – Behavior research …, 2017 – Springer
… The Computational Social Science Laboratory (CSSL) team at University of Southern California developed TACIT to … up and evolve with the rapid improvements in computational linguistics and natural-language processing. To achieve this goal, we (1) made the tool open-source …

Measuring innovativeness of public organizations: Using natural language processing techniques in computer-aided textual analysis
S Pandey, SK Pandey, L Miller – International Public Management …, 2017 – Taylor & Francis
… We discuss in detail the crucial step of developing data dictionaries by leveraging natural language processing algorithms and computer-aided … Computerized textual analysis has emerged as a powerful measurement tool/technique that provides an alternative to traditional …

The SAGE handbook of social media research methods
L Sloan, A Quan-Haase – 2017 – books.google.com
… and Practices Martin Hand Coding of non-Text Data Diane Rasmussen Pennington Twitter as Method: Using Twitter as a Tool to Conduct … location-aware Services for Mobile Phones Bernhard Klein and Ulf-Dietrich Reips PART VI RESEARCH AND ANALyTICAL TOOLS 26 27 …

An enhanced trust prediction strategy for online social networks using probabilistic reputation features
ED Raj, LDD Babu – Neurocomputing, 2017 – Elsevier
… This gigantic quantity of data cannot be analysed using traditional data analysing techniques or statistical tools … The migration from social network analysis to computational social science using OSNs analysis involves a Kuhnien scientific paradigm shift [30] …

Bridging big data and qualitative methods in the social sciences: A case study of Twitter responses to high profile deaths by suicide
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… findings and concludes by considering its potential use for interdisciplinary computational social science … Crowdsourcing has been recognised as a valuable research tool in numerous … advances in applying artificial neural networks for natural language processing of short texts …

Detection of User Demographics on Social Media: A Review of Methods and Recommendations for Best Practices
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Tools and resources for detecting hate and prejudice against immigrants in social media
C Bosco, V Patti, M Bogetti, M Conoscenti… – … SYSTEMS (SICIS) at …, 2017 – iris.unito.it
… to computational linguistics, Sentiment Analysis (SA), Discourse Analysis (DA), computational social science and data … aspect-based sentiment analysis, by applying highly developed natural language processing to deal … data and visualization of hate maps: a powerful tool to be …

Machine intelligence and the Social Web: How to get a cognitive upgrade
PR Smart – 2017 – eprints.soton.ac.uk
… A similar sort of claim is sometimes encountered in the nascent sub-discipline of computational social science [10] … Such interest is evidenced by research into Natural Language Processing (NLP) (eg, [27]), information extraction [28], and sentiment analysis [29] …

Understanding Abuse: A Typology of Abusive Language Detection Subtasks
Z Waseem, T Davidson, D Warmsley… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 – arxiv.org
… Overall, there are many tools that researchers can use to model the relationship between … In Proceedings of the International Conference Re- cent Advances in Natural Language Processing … In Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science …

Social media and political campaigning: Changing terms of engagement?
MJ Jensen – The International Journal of Press/Politics, 2017 – journals.sagepub.com
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Large-Scale Computerized Text Analysis in Political Science: Opportunities and Challenges
J Wilkerson, A Casas – Annual Review of Political Science, 2017 – annualreviews.org
… 2014). The combination of so many untapped research opportunities and accessible tools and training makes this an excellent time for specialists in all areas to invest in text. Legislative … Natural Language Processing. Social …

Applications of topic models
J Boyd-Graber, Y Hu, D Mimno – Foundations and Trends® in …, 2017 – nowpublishers.com
… 7 Computational Social Science 81 … 2An emerging trend in natural language processing research is to view words as embedded in a continuous space … They do not write about every possible topic, and the sparsity of Dirichlet distributions is the probabilistic tool that encodes this …

Social Set Analysis: A New Approach to Big Data Analysis
MBS Aher, MKR Nikam, MPD Pawar… – Imperial Journal of …, 2017 – imperialjournals.com
… Set Analysis consists of generative framework for philosophies of computational social science, theory of … types of inputs will be accepted The SUM normal tool will be … Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition, (editors: N. Indurkhya and FJ Damerau), 2010 …

The Data-Driven Future of International Economic Law
W Alschner, J Pauwelyn, S Puig – Journal of International …, 2017 – academic.oup.com
… emerged in neighboring fields under diverse labels such as ‘digital humanities’, 8 ‘computational social science’ 9 or the … growth of data-crunching power, and the development of new data analytics tools from network analysis to natural language processing and artificial …

Centralized, parallel, and distributed information processing during collective sensemaking
P Krafft, K Zhou, I Edwards, K Starbird… – Proceedings of the 2017 …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… Author Keywords Collective sensemaking; rumoring; rumor spreading; rumor evolution; collective intelligence; computational social science; computational modeling; social … Building tools to improve collective sensemaking, particularly on social media, could therefore have a …

Assessing reliability of social media data: lessons from mining TripAdvisor hotel reviews
Z Xiang, Q Du, Y Ma, W Fan – Information and Communication …, 2017 – Springer
… the classifier could be further refined and enhanced to detect other travel purposes such as family and couple, which could be a much more useful tool for marketing … Natural language processing with python … Life in the network: The coming age of computational social science …

How Does Twitter User Behavior Vary Across Demographic Groups?
Z Wood-Doughty, M Smith, D Broniatowski… – … Computational Social …, 2017 – aclweb.org
… We recorded whether the Carmen tool could identify a country and/or a city from the user’s profile. 3.4 User Interactions … In EMNLP Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science …

Harnessing the social web to enhance insights into people’s opinions in business, government and public administration
AW Baur – Information Systems Frontiers, 2017 – Springer
… contrast to MarketMiner, which is based on state-of-the-art natural language processing and machine … We received extremely positive feedback regarding the ‘level of precision’ of the tool … Interviewees confirmed that traditional social media monitoring tools, which have a partial …

Controlling human perception of basic user traits
D Preo?iuc-Pietro, SC Guntuku, L Ungar – … in natural language processing, 2017 – aclweb.org
… 2012. Langid.Py: An Off-the-shelf Language Identification Tool … 2017b. Personality Driven Differences in Para- phrase Preference. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS), ACL …

Understanding and coping with extremism in an online collaborative environment: A data-driven modeling
C Rudas, O Surányi, T Yasseri, J Török – PloS one, 2017 – journals.plos.org
… considerably, leading to the emergence of the new field of computational social science [7, 8 … work, the content of the talk pages is analysed using natural language processing tools to explain … The data collection is carried out using Wikimedia Tool Labs https://tools.wmflabs.org …

Code-Switching as a Social Act: The Case of Arabic Wikipedia Talk Pages
M Yoder, S Rijhwani, C Rosé, L Levin – … Computational Social Science, 2017 – aclweb.org
Page 1. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, pages 73 … Studying the relationship be- tween social variables and code-switching (CS) can give insight into the role of CS as a pragmatic tool of multilingual …

From clickbait to fake news detection: an approach based on detecting the stance of headlines to articles
P Bourgonje, JM Schneider, G Rehm – … : Natural Language Processing …, 2017 – aclweb.org
… angles, we aim to make a contribu- tion from the angle of Language Technology and Natural Language Processing … can be part of the set of services needed by a fact-checking tool (Rehm, 2017) … of the 1st Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science, pages 138–142 …

Telling Apart Tweets Associated with Controversial versus Non-Controversial Topics
A Addawood, R Rezapour, O Abdar… – … and Computational Social …, 2017 – aclweb.org
Page 1. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, pages 32 … 3.2 Corpus Selection We used Crimson Hexagon (Etlinger & Amand, 2012), a social media analytics tool, to collect public tweets posted in the …

A New SVM Method for Recognizing Polarity of Sentiments in Twitter
SSRR Kumar, MBR Kumar… – Handbook of Research on …, 2017 – books.google.com
… Tweets are the favoured medium for the marketing tool … In Proceedings of the ACL-02 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing (vol. 10, pp. 79-86) … Workshop on computational social science and the wisdom of crowds, nips, 104 (45), 17599-601. 291

Social Media’s Perspective on Industry 4.0: A Twitter Analysis
?G Yilmaz, D Aygün, Z Tanrikulu – Social Networking, 2017 – scirp.org
… However, many manufacturing systems are not ready to manage big data due to the lack of intelligent analytical tools [6] . In the recent years, there has been increased interest in the potential of big data & … “In machine learning and natural language processing topic models are …

Ideological Phrase Indicators for Classification of Political Discourse Framing on Twitter
K Johnson, IT Lee, D Goldwasser – … and Computational Social Science, 2017 – aclweb.org
Page 1. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, pages 90–99, Vancouver, Canada, August 3, 2017 … Framing is an important tool used by politicians to bias the discussion towards their stance …

Semantic social media analysis of Chinese tourists in Switzerland
Z Liu, J Shan, NG Balet, G Fang – Information Technology & Tourism, 2017 – Springer
… As a method to connect related data on the web, linked data are important in improving the quality of natural language processing (NLP), such as users … Such an advanced technological tool makes tourism-related products and services much more visible and distinguishable …

A comparative analysis of major online review platforms: Implications for social media analytics in hospitality and tourism
Z Xiang, Q Du, Y Ma, W Fan – Tourism Management, 2017 – Elsevier
… a new research paradigm that utilizes diverse sources of data and analytical tools to make inferences and predictions about reality (Boyd & Crawford, 2012; Mayer-Schönberger & Cukier, 2013). Particularly, with increasingly powerful natural language processing and machine …

Information flow reveals prediction limits in online social activity
JP Bagrow, X Liu, L Mitchell – arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.04575, 2017 – arxiv.org
… Computational social science. Science, 323(5915):721, 2009. 1 9 … These tools were applied in April 2017 … We used the botometer1 API [2, 3, 4, 5] to score the probability that an ego account was a bot, and eliminated n = 46 accounts that scored above 50%. This tool examines …

Heuristics for assessing Computational Archival Science (CAS) research: The case of the human face of big data project
M Lee, Y Zhang, S Chen, E Spencer… – Big Data (Big Data) …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… disciplinary fields by combining this way of thinking (eg, computational social science [6]), many … If a study uses advanced- level computational methods such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) and … to provide researchers in and around CAS with a useful tool and framework …

Acquiring background knowledge to improve moral value prediction
Y Lin, J Hoover, M Dehghani, M Mooijman… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 – arxiv.org
… values ex- pressed in social media text via a suite of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques … 2. In the area of computational social science, most previous work involving applications of NLP to … We choose this tool because most entity linkers are designed for formal …

Communication power struggles on social media: A case study of the 2011–12 Russian protests
V Spaiser, T Chadefaux, K Donnay… – Journal of Information …, 2017 – Taylor & Francis
… KEYWORDS Communication power; natural language processing; political discourse; protest; Russia; social media; Twitter … As a tool that allows actors to widely disseminate information, it may not be that different from traditional media such as TV or radio, which have long been …

Archiving information from geotagged tweets to promote reproducibility and comparability in social media research
K Kinder-Kurlanda, K Weller… – Big Data & …, 2017 – journals.sagepub.com
Skip to main content. Menus. SAGE Journals. Profile logged-in. Search. MENU. Browse; Resources: Authors; Librarians; Editors; Societies. My Tools: My Alerts; My Saved Searches; My Favorite Journals; My Account. Advanced Search. IN THIS JOURNAL …

Contagion dynamics of extremist propaganda in social networks
E Ferrara – Information Sciences, 2017 – Elsevier
… Using computational social science tools to gauge online extremism, we aim to answer the … a technical standpoint, analyzing Arabic content would require sophisticated natural language processing (NLP) techniques … further address RQ1 by offering a powerful tool to information …

A taxonomy approach to studying how gamers review games
MJ Koehler, B Arnold, SP Greenhalgh… – Simulation & …, 2017 – journals.sagepub.com
… MENU. Browse; Resources: Authors; Librarians; Editors; Societies. My Tools: My Alerts; My Saved Searches; My Favorite Journals; My Account. Advanced Search. IN THIS JOURNAL … Societies. My Tools: My Alerts; My Saved Searches; My Favorite Journals; My Account. Advanced …

Increases in synthetic cannabinoids-related harms: Results from a longitudinal web-based content analysis
FR Lamy, R Daniulaityte, RW Nahhas… – International Journal of …, 2017 – ijdp.org
… Search terms are based on the Drug Use Ontology (DAO) created for this study (189 SCRA-related and 501 effect-related terms). EDrugTrends NLP-based text processing tools were used to extract posts mentioning SCRA and their effects …

Understanding emotions and social interactions in the digital society
D García Becerra – 2017 – research-collection.ethz.ch
… of disciplines, it is often challenging to describe the set of questions and methods addressed in Computational Social Science … Examples of these computerized methods are Natural Language Processing tools that can quantify meanings and patterns from text, as well as …

Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)
G Kondrak, T Watanabe – … Conference on Natural Language Processing …, 2017 – aclweb.org
… Mining Area) Mans Hulden (Morphology, Segmentation and Tagging Area) Nancy Ide (Resources and Tools Area) Jing … interests are in computational linguistics, with a focus on lexical semantics, multilingual natural language processing, and computational social sciences …

INQUIRE Tool: Early Insight Discovery for Qualitative Research
P Paredes, V Oikonomou, RF Guerrero… – Companion of the 2017 …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… Systems leveraging computational social science [2,4] and social computing [5,6] have shown new ways to draw meaning from large-scale text corpuses … The tool allows the user to “see” the “raw” data while leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms that …

Lessons from a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities
S Clematide, I Meraner, N Bubenhofer, M Volk – 2017 – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… an actively running Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Natural Language Processing for Digital … It has a strong empirical fo- cus on digital representations, tools and corpus … 2009) etc.), empirical corpus linguis- tics and computational social sciences (including automatic …

Social Media and the Web of Linked Data
D Trandabat, D Gifu – Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2017 ACM/IEEE …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… spelling have raised a new set of challenges to the natural language processing field … user communities; Interactive interfaces and visual analytics methods; Collaborative tools and services for citizens, organizations, communities; Computational social science for the …

A computational analysis of social media scholarship
J Foote, A Shaw, BM Hill – The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, 2017 – jeremydfoote.com
… Others are more complicated, using tools from natural language processing (NLP) … One natural language processing technique – topic modeling – is used in- creasingly frequently in computational social science research …

Tweet Extraction for News Production Considering Unreality
Y Takei, T Miyazaki, I Yamada, J Goto – paclic31.national-u.edu.ph
… 2016 EMNLP Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, pages 11 … Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, pages 965 … A Framework and Tool for Collaborative Extraction of Reliable Information …

Inference of Personal Attributes from Tweets Using Machine Learning
T Yo, K Sasahara – arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.09927, 2017 – arxiv.org
… techniques, including deep learning, are more practical for image, sound, and natural language processing … frequently been used as a data source by computational social science researchers (eg … segmented into words using the Japanese morphological analysis tool Mecab [8 …

Mining Social Science Publications for Survey Variables
A Zielinski, P Mutschke – … on NLP and Computational Social Science, 2017 – aclweb.org
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, pages 47–52 … ie by filtering out good candidates from (possibly huge) document collections in the first stage, and using higher-level semantic processing tools in the …

Topic-based agreement and disagreement in US electoral manifestos
S Menini, F Nanni, SP Ponzetto, S Tonelli – … Language Processing, 2017 – aclweb.org
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2938–2944 … Woolley and Peters, 2008), and the interest of the computational social science (CSS) community in … We set the tool to extract lemmatized key concepts up to three …

community2vec: Vector representations of online communities encode semantic relationships
T Martin – … Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science, 2017 – aclweb.org
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, pages 27–31 … These re- sults could help improve community rec- ommendation engines and also serve as a tool for sociological studies of community relatedness …

Data, Disciplines, and Dialogue: Lessons for Project Design
G van Klinken – Asiascape: Digital Asia, 2017 – booksandjournals.brillonline.com
… It laid out an expansive program of digital tool development and other … Collaborations between social scientists (historians) and computer scientists (natural language processing specialists) are … field in which ens worked is more properly called computational social science, but I …

Data Science and Social Research: Epistemology, Methods, Technology and Applications
NC Lauro, E Amaturo, MG Grassia, B Aragona… – 2017 – Springer
… field of social science which makes intensive use of computer science (computational social science (CSS)) … Data mining may employ a series of different techniques including natural language processing, neural net … may also be used as a form of analytical tool, visual analytics …

A Bullying-Severity Identifier Framework Based on Machine Learning and Fuzzy Logic
CR Sedano, EL Ursini, PS Martins – International Conference on Artificial …, 2017 – Springer
… Xu [12] shows that social media, with appropriate Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, can be a valuable tool for the … Computational social science is an emerging field has the capacity to collect and analyze large amounts of …

Cognitive Big Data: Survey And Review On Big Data Analytics For Online Social Media
S Gandhimathi, VB Deepa – ijcrcst.com
… Computational social science applications include: monitoring public responses to announcements, speeches and events, especially political comments and initiatives; insights into … These are mainly natural language processing, analysis and classification tools, which are …

Language-independent Gender Prediction on Twitter
N Ljubeši?, D Fišer, T Erjavec – … NLP and Computational Social Science, 2017 – aclweb.org
… of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, pages 1–6 … for gender prediction is substantial both for the field of natural language processing where using … the na- tional basic research project ”Resources, methods and tools for the …

Using Deliberation-Centric Social Network Analysis to Measure Balkanization
M Klein, A Gruzd, J Lannigan – 2017 – papers.ssrn.com
… State of the Art A key reason that computational social science approaches make little or no use of semantic information is that current natural language processing (NLP) technology … We used Pajek, a popular social network analysis tool to build, visualize and interpret the …

Modelling Participation in Small Group Social Sequences with Markov Rewards Analysis
G Murray – … Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science, 2017 – aclweb.org
Page 1. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, pages 68 … There are many other possible outcomes of in- terest in group interaction, and Markov Rewards models should be a useful tool for analyzing social …

Political Networks and Computational Social Science
D Lazer, S Wojcik – The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks, 2017 – books.google.com
… proposed latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), the standard topic model used in natural language processing … Political Networks and Computational Social Science 121 related to specific words … assistant, social media liaison, web browser, photo archive, and communication tool …

Augmenting Media Literacy with Automatic Characterization of News along Pragmatic Dimensions
ML Boon – Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… Author Keywords Computational journalism; information retrieval; machine learning; natural language processing … of the ACL 2014 Workshop on Language Technologies and Computational Social Science … Story Workbench: An Extensible Semi-Automatic Text Annotation Tool …

Application of Natural Language Processing to Determine User Satisfaction in Public Services
R Kowalski, M Esteve, SJ Mikhaylov – arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.08083, 2017 – arxiv.org
… Large quantities of unstructured feedback can be summarized with natural language processing (NLP) … widely-used tool to measure user satisfaction with the quality of public services … are no established tools to update the survey satisfaction measurement to changing conditions …

Macroanalysis in the Arts and Sciences
TE Lombardi – New Directions for Computing Education, 2017 – Springer
… Research in textual analysis and natural language processing often require macroanalytic thinking to grapple with the tremendous … The GLEaMviz computational tool, a publicly available software to explore realistic epidemic spreading scenarios … Computational Social Science …

Tracing Networks of Knowledge in the Digital Age
M Musolesi – arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.01476, 2017 – arxiv.org
… of software devel- opers’ activities in GitHub, an online software development collaborative tool … 2009), ‘Life in the network: the coming age of computational social science’, Science 323 … CD & Sch ütze, H. (1999), Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press …

Doing Computational Social Science with Python: An Introduction
D Trilling – 2017 – papers.ssrn.com
… 55 7.2 Natural language processing … Often, this development if referred to as a move towards “computational social science” (Kitchin, 2014; Lazer et al., 2009 … In the start menu under ”Education” you now find a new program, Spy- der 3. This is the tool we will be using for doing …

Exploring Diachronic Lexical Semantics with JESEME
J Hellrich, U Hahn – Proceedings of ACL 2017, System Demonstrations, 2017 – aclweb.org
… JESEME is also the first tool of its kind and under continuous … In Proceed- ings of the Workshop on Language Technologies and Computational Social Science @ ACL 2014 … Founda- tions of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, chapter 5: Colloca …

The Quantified Writer
A Smith, B Cope, M Kalantzis – Handbook of Writing, Literacies …, 2017 – books.google.com
… Computational social science. Science, 323 (5915), 721–723. Li, C., & Girju, R.(2015, June) … New York, NY: Baywood. McNamara, D., & Graesser, A.(2012). Coh-Metrix: An automated tool for theoretical and applied natural language processing …

Computational social science and Big Data: a quick SWOT analysis
T Leiber – Berechenbarkeit der Welt?, 2017 – Springer
… world where massive amounts of data and applied mathematics re- place every other tool that might … Computational Social Science and Big Data: A Quick SWOT Analysis … body of work that uses a com- bination of machine learning, natural language processing, network analysis …

Big Data Management: Advanced Issues and Approaches
K Kasemsap – International Journal of Organizational and Collective …, 2017 – igi-global.com
… McCarthy,&T.Lamkin(Eds.),Cross-disciplinary advances in applied natural language processing: Issues and … J.,&Kwon,Y.(2014).Understandingtheparadigmshifttocomputationalsocial scienceinthe … Chugh(Ed.),Harnessingsocialmediaasaknowledgemanagementtool(pp.315 …

Synthesizing Training Data with Weak Supervision
S Bach – stephenbach.net
… Researchers around the world have used PSL for bioinformatics, computational social science, natural language processing, information extraction, and computer vision [5, and … One major reason is that there are no ready substitutes for tools like regular expressions when …

The network structure of visited locations according to geotagged social media photos
C Junker, Z Akbar, M Cuquet – Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, 2017 – Springer
… the large scale (volume), complexity (variety) and dynamics (velocity) properties of complex systems [5], enhanced by the innovative potential of open data [6], and machine learning, data mining and natural language processing tools, among others … computational social science …

Domain Extraction From Research Papers
R Jayanthi, S Sheela – Journal of Science and Technology (JST), 2017 – jst.org.in
… Step 2: Read Research paper(pdf format) using Pdf IFilter Tool … key Aspects of Scientific Papers, International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), 2011 … and Domain of Scientific Papers, NIPS workshop on Computational Social Science and the …

The Actors of History: Narrative Network Analysis Reveals the Institutions of Power in British Society Between 1800-1950
T Lansdall-Welfare, S Sudhahar, J Thompson… – … on Intelligent Data …, 2017 – Springer
… of AI algorithms with tools from the computational social sciences and data-science, is a promising way to address the many open questions of Digital Humanities. Keywords. Big data Network analysis Digital humanities Narrative analysis Natural language processing. Download …

Early Signals of Trending Rumor Event in Streaming Social Media
S Wang, I Moise, D Helbing… – Computer Software and …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Izabela Moise, Dirk Helbing Computational Social Science ETH Zurich, Switzerland imoise@ethz.ch … sharing) that make social media a powerful dissemination tool, have also … microblogs,” in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language …

Filtering Tweets for Social Unrest
A Mishler, K Wonus, W Chambers… – … (ICSC), 2017 IEEE …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… data is generated on such a large and rapid scale, computational tools are potentially … In particular, we aimed to create a tool for filtering tweets to provide … during crises,” in Proceedings of the ACL 2014 Workshop on Language Technologies and Computational Social Science …

Stance Classification of Social Media Users in Independence Movements
A Zubiaga, B Wang, M Liakata, R Procter – arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.08388, 2017 – arxiv.org
… of users’ socio-demographic details that would enable developing data mining tools that take … to mitigate this issue, a growing body of research in natural language processing and data … et al., “Life in the network: the coming age of computational social science,” Science (New …

The Flatland Fallacy: Moving Beyond Low Dimensional Thinking
E Jolly, LJ Chang – 2017 – psyarxiv.com
… 1). Central to our argument is that models serve as tools to both … Improved? ?Quantitative? ?Training Although computational models offer one tool for uncovering … as data manipulation, generating predictive models, machine-learning, natural language processing, graph theory …

Hyperlocal Home Location Identification of Twitter Profiles
A Poulston, M Stevenson, K Bontcheva – … of the 28th ACM Conference on …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… Kinsella et al. [23] predicted location at a number of levels, generating their location labels via the Yahoo GeoPlanet1 tool, and applying this in a method based on ranking probable location labels by Kullback-Leibler divergence. Rout et al …

Web-Scraping for Non-Programmers: Introducing OXPath for Digital Library Metadata Harvesting.
M Neumann, J Steinberg, P Schaer – Code4Lib Journal, 2017 – search.ebscohost.com
… monitoring harvesting processes and/or providing a visual tool for crafting … research associate and software developer with the department Computational Social Science (CSS) at … pursues special interests in information retrieval, open science, and natural language processing …

Towards Integrative Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction
A Holzinger, R Goebel, V Palade, M Ferri – Towards Integrative Machine …, 2017 – Springer
… Mateusz also showed an application of this tool to knots detection and classification … Sou-Cheng Choi:Machine Learning for Machine Data in Computational Social Sciences … Sou-Cheng and her colleagues adapt natural language processing (NLP) techniques and data-mining …

Big Data, Analysis of
D Trilling – The International Encyclopedia of Communication …, 2017 – Wiley Online Library
… Nevertheless, computer science, digital human- ities, and computational social science come from different epistemological … In a Big Data context, such tasks involve natural language processing (NLP) … that machine learning can be an extremely powerful tool for communication …

One Million Posts: A Data Set of German Online Discussions
D Schabus, M Skowron, M Trapp – … of the 40th International ACM SIGIR …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… The data set is furthermore useful to other fields including natural language processing, sentiment analysis and … the German data set presented here supports the advancement of tools and models … In Proceedings of EMNLP Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science …

Cross-Context Lexical Analysis
S Massung, C Geigle, CX Zhai – massung1.web.engr.illinois.edu
Page 1. Cross-Context Lexical Analysis Sean Massung, Chase Geigle, and ChengXiang Zhai Computer Science Department College of Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign {massung1,geigle1,czhai}@illinois.edu Abstract …

From digitization to the age of acceleration: On information technology and tourism
Z Xiang – Tourism Management Perspectives, 2017 – Elsevier
… Importantly, analytical tools, particularly those based on natural language processing, network analysis and machine learning, enabled … today’s technology is no longer simply an object or a tool for “eTourism” … Life in the network: The coming age of computational social science …

Global human trafficking seen through the lens of semantics and text analytics
DAD Bedford, J Bekbalaeva, KM Ballard… – Proceedings of the …, 2017 – Wiley Online Library
… methods – in contrast to text analytics – make use of natural language processing engines, extensive … analytics and the semantic analysis work is to develop tools and methods … in diplomacy and world affairs from Occidental College, computational social science from George …

Modern research method: Opportunity knock.
I Alvi – Journal of Emerging Economies & Islamic Research, 2017 – search.ebscohost.com
… analysis of text, which draws on techniques developed in natural language processing, information retrieval, text … Academics need only learn how to apply these tools and interpret the … Noah A. Smith, Proceedings of the NIPS Workshop on Computational Social Science and the …

Challenges in discriminating profanity from hate speech
S Malmasi, M Zampieri – Journal of Experimental & Theoretical …, 2017 – Taylor & Francis
… features of hate speech, and from engineers interested in developing tools to deal … Proceedings of the fifth international workshop on natural language processing for social media association for … Proceedings of the first workshop on NLP and computational social science (pp …

Sensing and Model Human Behavior Using Social Media and Mobile Data
A Mehrotra, M Musolesi – arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.01181, 2017 – arxiv.org
… this reason, mobile phones have been increasingly used as an essential tool for the … (2009), ‘Life in the network: the coming age of computational social science’, Science 323 … Manning, CD & Sch ¨utze, H. (1999), Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press …

Online Social Networks and Media
D Karamshuk, F Shaw, J Brownlie, N Sastry – 2017 – research.ed.ac.uk
… emergent findings and concludes by considering its potential use for interdisciplinary computational social science … has been recog- nised as a valuable research tool in numerous … on recent advances in applying artificial neural networks for natural language processing of short …

Automated Information Extraction
C Cioffi-Revilla – Introduction to Computational Social Science, 2017 – Springer
… following are significant historical milestones and pioneers in this area of Computational Social Science … Machine translation and other natural language processing (NLP) applications also play major roles in … GDELT data set, categorization has become a major tool in events …

Social Sciences and Humanities
D Card – 2017 – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… This thesis will argue that machine learning and natural language processing (ML and NLP … prior assumptions into models by expanding the range of tools and methods … the task of predicting pro- portions would have widespread applicability within computational social science …

SIFT–A Language Technology Toolkit to Assess the Print Media Coverage of New Forms of Governance
B Wüest, M Amsler, G Schneider – 2017 – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… which diminishes the feasibility of manual content analysis procedures for large scale studies. The obvious task in this case is to transfer and adapt the comprehensive computational linguistic tool set to social science (Wueest et al., 2011) … Natural language processing 1 2 …

Identifying Food Safety-Related Research
E Klochikhin, JI Lane – … the Economic Value of Research: The …, 2017 – books.google.com
… SBIR Phase I: Ensuring Food Safety-A Predicve Modeling Tool for Process … in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing–EMNLP’08 … Manning, DA Mcfarland, Proceedings of NIPS Workshop on Computational Social Science and the …

Profiling Dutch Authors on Twitter: Discovering Political Preference and Income Level
B Plank – clinjournal.org
… 7. Word clouds are created using the tool http://www.wordle.net … Use of language and author profiling: Identification of gender and age, Natural Language Processing and Cognitive … on twitter, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science, pp …

Modeling Trans-Device Content Experience and Knowledge Development for Detection of TV Audiences
K Okazaki, K Inoue – … (CBI), 2017 IEEE 19th Conference on, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Keywords—Symbolic inference, feature extraction, graphical model, LFIT, marketing, computational social science … In this research, we apply artificial intelligence technology from natural language processing, neural networks, and … Thus, logic is more of a subjective tool used …

Enhancing crowd wisdom using measures of diversity computed from social media data
S Bhatt, B Minnery, S Nadella, B Bullemer… – Proceedings of the …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… in conjunction with increas- ingly sophisticated content-network analysis tools, to improve … similarity between words and has been used in various natural language processing tasks such … is also related to a broader research thread within computational social science aimed at …

Quantifying Attention to Foreign Elections with Text Analysis of US Congress and the Presidency
A Elshehawy, N Marinov, F Nanni – 2017 – papers.ssrn.com
… Computational Social Science (CSS) (Lazer et al … tion of natural language processing (NLP) approaches (Grimmer and Stewart 2013) has allowed … 6Sanctions constitute a policy tool that can exert a potentially powerful impact on targeted states (Baldwin 1985; Dashti-Gibson et al …

Exploring issues in a networked public sphere: Combining hyperlink network analysis and topic modeling
D Maier, A Waldherr, P Miltner… – Social Science …, 2017 – journals.sagepub.com
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Topic Modelling Methodology: Its Use in Information Systems and Other Managerial Disciplines
M Eickhoff, N Neuss – 2017 – aisel.aisnet.org
… However, while convenient tools for the creation of this model class exist, the evaluation of topic … (2016) provide a tutorial for using topic modelling as a tool in information … is a challenging task and remains an area of active research in natural language processing and computer …

Incentivizing social media users for mobile crowdsourcing
P Micholia, M Karaliopoulos, I Koutsopoulos… – International Journal of …, 2017 – Elsevier
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Living with Digital Worlds: A Personal View of Artificial Intelligence
H Coelho – Current and Future Developments in Artificial …, 2017 – books.google.com
… Natural language processing, knowledge based systems, robotics and vision, and constraints received less attention … the soundness of the models and the care taken in the making of these tools … All concept designs were done with the NetLogo tool, which made the process of …

The Rise of Jihadist Propaganda on Social Networks
A Badawy, E Ferrara – arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.02263, 2017 – arxiv.org
… Keywords: Computational Social Science, Social Media, Twitter, ISIS, Islamic Radicalization. Page 2. Rise of Jihadist Propaganda 2 … In this study, we adopt state-of-the-art machine learning tools paired with human annotations to overcome these computational limits …

RePAIR: Recommend political actors in real-time from news websites
M Solaimani, S Salam, L Khan… – Big Data (Big Data) …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Since these tools use only the syntactic structure of the sentence (eg, parse tree, etc.) for their event coding, missing actors will generate events which fail to capture actual … Next, PropBank generates event codes with arguments for each sentence using its practnlp tool [17] …

An ontology-based framework for extracting spatio-temporal influenza data using Twitter
UK Jayawardhana, PV Gorsevski – International Journal of Digital …, 2017 – Taylor & Francis
… The framework uses a client-server architecture that takes advantage of open source tools such as … Influenza Epidemics Using Twitter.” In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 1568–1576 … “Evidence-based Tool for Triggering …

Display Advertising with Real-Time Bidding (RTB) and Behavioural Targeting
J Wang, W Zhang, S Yuan – Foundations and Trends® in …, 2017 – nowpublishers.com
… 7 Computational Social Science 81 … 2An emerging trend in natural language processing research is to view words as embedded in a continuous space … They do not write about every possible topic, and the sparsity of Dirichlet distributions is the probabilistic tool that encodes this …

Digital trace data in the study of public opinion: An indicator of attention toward politics rather than political support
A Jungherr, H Schoen, O Posegga… – Social Science …, 2017 – journals.sagepub.com
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What’s in a ‘Meme’? Understanding the Dynamics of Image Macros in Social Media
B Prasad, A Krishna, U Krishnan, AK Boga… – majumderb.com
… with the advent of web 2.0, large-scale studies for computational social sciences became feasible … through a semi-automated mechanism – using the “findimagedups”4 tool followed by … approach is analogous to a sequence of characters in natural language processing tasks, or …

Key Topics in environmental sociology, 1990–2014: results from a computational text analysis
J Bohr, RE Dunlap – Environmental Sociology, 2017 – Taylor & Francis
… Light, R. 2014. “From Words to Networks and Back: Digital Text, Computational Social Science, and the Case of Presidential Inaugural Addresses.” Social Currents 1 (2): 111–129. doi:10.1177/2329496514524543.[Crossref].

Hate speech annotation: Analysis of an Italian twitter corpus
F Poletto, M Stranisci, M Sanguinetti, V Patti… – CEUR WORKSHOP …, 2017 – iris.unito.it
… the corpus and evaluating the schema adopted, but also a tool that provides … In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for So- cial Media … In Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science, pages 138–142 …

Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
R Barzilay, MY Kan – Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the …, 2017 – aclweb.org
… His research spans many topics in natural language processing, machine learning, and computational social science … Abstract Recent years have witnessed the development of a wide range of computational tools that process and generate natural language text …

Comparison of Public-Domain Software and Services For Probabilistic Record Linkage and Address Standardization
SCT Choi, Y Lin, E Mulrow – Towards Integrative Machine Learning and …, 2017 – Springer
… Often, various modern data analysis techniques such as natural language processing and machine learning … enrolled in the research course SCI 498 / MATH 491 Computational Social Sciences, Illinois Institute of … JJ, Xiong, L., Cragan, JD, Correa, A.: FRIL: A tool for comparative …

Text preprocessing for unsupervised learning: why it matters, when it misleads, and what to do about it
MJ Denny, A Spirling – … , Dep. Polit. Sci, Stanford Univ and …, 2017 – polmeth.polisci.wisc.edu
… of operations like decapitalization, pruning words back to their stems and removing very common words, can be found in textbooks for natural language processing and information retrieval (e.g. Jurafsky and Martin, 2008; Manning, Raghavan and Schütze, 2008). Subse …

Detecting influencers in multiple online genres
S Rosenthal, K Mckeown – ACM Transactions on Internet Technology …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… CCS Concepts: r Information systems ? World Wide Web; r Computing methodologies ? Natural language processing; r Applied computing ? Psychology; Additional Key Words and Phrases: Influence, natural language processing, social media, psychology, com- putational …

Tracking the Diffusion of Named Entities
L Derczynski, M Rowe – arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.08349, 2017 – arxiv.org
… While initially conducted over newswire [39], older tools tend not to perform so … This opens areas of investigation such as computational social science, examining eg demographics [20], personality … 23], and subsequently word-sized chunks, using the twokenize tool with some …

Hazardous weather prediction and communication in the modern information environment
RE Morss, JL Demuth, H Lazrus… – Bulletin of the …, 2017 – journals.ametsoc.org
… data” streams and coupled natural–human system modeling. 2. The framework and research approaches build on existing knowledge and tools from multiple fields of study. By connecting and combining ideas across these fields …

On the Uses of Word Sense Change for Research in the Digital Humanities
N Tahmasebi, T Risse – International Conference on Theory and Practice …, 2017 – Springer
… telephone, refrigerator, cooker, washing machine and then a tool for (mass … Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2016)Google … In: Workshop on Language Technologies and Computational Social Science (2014)Google Scholar …

Surfacing contextual hate speech words within social media
J Taylor, M Peignon, YS Chen – arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.10093, 2017 – arxiv.org
… The Terms of Service for these platforms provide guidelines on what content is prohibited, these guidelines then shape the au- tomatic filtering tools of these platforms … These issues make it difficult to identify hate speech with Natural Language Processing [NLP] ap- proaches …

Enhancing Big Data in the Social Sciences with Crowdsourcing: Data Augmentation Practices, Techniques, and Opportunities
N Porter, A Verdery, SM Gaddis – 2017 – papers.ssrn.com
… Page 5. Enhancing Big Data in the Social Sciences with Crowdsourcing 5 the social sciences at a low cost to researchers. We show that such tools are underused for non … data augmentation tool. Nearly every article we examined (92%) described data collection …

Psychological text analysis in the digital humanities
RL Boyd – Data analytics in digital humanities, 2017 – Springer
… to as “distant reading” (eg, Moretti 2013; Ross 2014) and other natural language processing methodologies … for a number of studies that exist in the computational social sciences, particularly when … self-report questionnaires can be an ideal personality assessment tool: they are …

The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks
JN Victor, AH Montgomery, M Lubell – 2017 – books.google.com
… Her research on network science, data mining, computa- tional tools, and political … Since March 2016 Pfeffer serves as Professor for Computational Social Science and Big Data … His research on social informatics, network science, and natural language processing has been …

A Critical Assessment of a Method for Detecting Diachronic Meaning Shifts: Lessons Learnt from Experiments on Dutch
H Haagsma, M Nissim – clinjournal.org
… to make do with manual inspection of potential shifts, a useful tool, and an … of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Association for … of the ACL 2014 Workshop on Language Technologies and Computational Social Science, Association for …

Data-centric and logic-based models for automated legal problem solving
LK Branting – Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2017 – Springer
… theorem prover or its equivalent) in response to queries generated by a natural-language processing in response … context, in much the same way that data-centric litigation support tools can greatly … be a much more achievable goal than a logic-aware rule-drafting tool carrying an …

Integrating sentiment and social structure to determine preference alignments: the Irish Marriage Referendum
DJP O’Sullivan… – Royal Society …, 2017 – rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org
Skip to main content. Other Publications: Philosophical Transactions B; Proceedings B; Biology Letters; Open Biology; Philosophical Transactions A; Proceedings A; Royal Society Open Science; Interface; Interface Focus; Notes and Records; Biographical Memoirs …

Predicting and understanding law-making with word vectors and an ensemble model
JJ Nay – PloS one, 2017 – journals.plos.org
… Our textual analysis serves as an exploratory tool for investigating subtle distinctions across categories that were previously impossible to investigate at this scale. The same analysis can be applied to any words in the large legislative vocabulary …

Social commerce research: Definition, research themes and the trends
X Lin, Y Li, X Wang – International Journal of Information Management, 2017 – Elsevier
… dataset prepared in the previous step was analyzed with a text mining approach using one of the leading data mining tools ? Rapidminer (Jungermann, 2009). Text mining is a collection of techniques derived from areas such as natural language processing (NLP), information …

Text Preprocessing For Unsupervised Learning: Why It Matters, When It Misleads, And What To Do About It
M Denny, A Spirling – 2017 – nyu.edu
… of operations like decapitalization, pruning words back to their stems and removing very common words, can be found in textbooks for natural language processing and information retrieval (e.g. Jurafsky and Martin, 2008; Manning, Raghavan and Schütze, 2008). Subse …

Girls Rule, Boys Drool: Extracting Semantic and Affective Stereotypes from Twitter.
K Joseph, W Wei, KM Carley – CSCW, 2017 – cs.cmu.edu
… Keywords computational social science; social psychology; identity; stereo- type; Twitter … To develop these affective baselines, we first run all training data through the VADER sentiment analysis tool [32], which gives a continuous value on the interval [-1,1] for each tweet …

Online Social Networks and Media
S Šcepanovic, I Mishkovski, B Gonçalves, TH Nguyen… – 2017 – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… Hence a new research field termed computational social science emerged [36] … 3.2.2. AlchemyAPI AlchemyAPI (later merged with of IBM Watson Developer Cloud1) [2] performs natural language processing (NLP) and ma- chine learning (ML) analysis …

Generative Models for Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
H Wang, CX Zhai – A Practical Guide to Sentiment Analysis, 2017 – Springer
This chapter provides a survey of recent work on using generative models for sentiment analysis and opinion mining. Generative models attempt to model the joint distribution of all the relevant data w.

Joint Inference of User Community and Interest Patterns in Social Interaction Networks
AM Sadri, S Hasan, SV Ukkusuri – arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.01706, 2017 – arxiv.org
… We also discuss the application of such networks as a useful tool to effectively disseminate specific information to the target … While dealing with unlabeled text data that requires natural language processing, LDA is a highly acceptable framework in the machine learning literature …

Eight-minute self-regulation intervention raises educational attainment at scale in individualist but not collectivist cultures
RF Kizilcec, GL Cohen – Proceedings of the National …, 2017 – National Acad Sciences
… Natural language processing of written responses revealed that MCII was effective when a learner’s primary obstacle was predictable and surmountable, such as everyday work or family obligations but not a practical constraint (eg, Internet access) or a lack of time …

Enabling Interactive Analytics of Secure Data using Cloud Kotta
YN Babuji, K Chard, E Duede – arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00070, 2017 – arxiv.org
… interrogated by general and specialized data mining and machine learning tools in a … is work, situated in the Computational Social Sciences and the broader Sci- ence of Science, seeks … Cloud Ko a to be useful in conducting research using natural language processing and text …

Predicting Demographics of High-Resolution Geographies with Geotagged Tweets.
O Montasser, D Kifer – AAAI, 2017 – aaai.org
… We specifically used data from the Summary File 1 tables P12 and P5, for gender and race/ethnicity, re- spectively. We used the Data Finder tool provided by the National Historical Geographic Information System (Min- nesota Population Center 2011) to collect this data. We …

The invid plug-in: web video verification on the browser
D Teyssou, JM Leung, E Apostolidis… – Proceedings of the …, 2017 – researchgate.net
… been found out that it can offer a valuable integrated tool that can … In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP ’11) … In Proceedings of the ACL 2014 Workshop on Language Technologies and Computational Social Science …

Generalisation in named entity recognition: A quantitative analysis
I Augenstein, L Derczynski, K Bontcheva – Computer Speech & Language, 2017 – Elsevier
… Natural language processing. Information extraction. Named entity recognition. Generalisation. Entity drift. Social media … of NER methods over different corpora showed that older tools tend to … leading to whole new fields of research opening in computational social science (Hovy et …

The Social Scaffolding of Machine Intelligence
PR Smart, A Madaan – paulsmart.cognosys.co.uk
… In the case of socially-scaffolded cognition, such resources are most obviously thought of as other human individuals, as well as perhaps the products of human cultural innovation (ie, artifacts, knowledge, norms, language, tools, practices, and so on) …

Agent-based modelling as a foundation for big data
SH Chen, R Venkatachalam – Journal of Economic Methodology, 2017 – Taylor & Francis
… Computational social science (Vol … data, its power to be able to ‘speak’ to big data and its ability to serve as an abductive tool for knowledge … not discuss engineering-related concerns or provide a detailed review of any specific statistical method or machine learning tools that are …

Paying with change: The purposeful enunciation of material culture
DS Stoltz, MA Taylor – Poetics, 2017 – Elsevier
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Detection and resolution of rumours in social media: A survey
A Zubiaga, A Aker, K Bontcheva, M Liakata… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 – arxiv.org
… to study how users share and discuss rumours, and to explore how natural language processing and data … Hence, social media has become a powerful tool for journalists [Diakopoulos et al … with the advent of social media, which not only provides powerful new tools for sharing …

Anthropology with algorithms?
LJ Krieg, M Berning, A Hardon – 2017 – medanthrotheory.org
… connections to other Facebook pages, using the digital media tool Netvizz and … University of Amsterdam7 and is designed to make computational tools more accessible … We focused on experimenting with computational methods, such as natural language processing, to access …

Automatically Tagging Constructions of Causation and Their Slot-Fillers
J Dunietz, L Levin, J Carbonell – Transactions of the Association of …, 2017 – aclweb.org
Page 1. Automatically Tagging Constructions of Causation and Their Slot-Fillers Jesse Dunietz Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA jdunietz@cs.cmu.edu Lori Levin and Jaime …

Social Networks
C Cioffi-Revilla – Introduction to Computational Social Science, 2017 – Springer
… Introduction to Computational Social Science. Download book …

The Entropy of Words—Learnability and Expressivity across More than 1000 Languages
C Bentz, D Alikaniotis, M Cysouw, R Ferrer-i-Cancho – Entropy, 2017 – mdpi.com
… It lies at the heart of quantitative linguistics, computational linguistics and language sciences more generally. Information theory gives us tools at hand to measure precisely the average amount of choice associated with words: the word entropy …

Learning Maliciousness in Cybersecurity Graphs
C Walsh, A Rangamani, S Gottlieb, L Maida – Cyber-Security and Digital …, 2017 – sdiwc.net
… legal investigations of the Enron corporation, it has since been widely used in natural language processing [7] and … Computational social science … detecting an attack or reactive response, but mainly building organization cybersecurity information systems and monitoring tools …

Real-time Monitoring and Evaluation–Emerging News as Predictive Process using Big Data Based Approach
FM Rinaldi, G Giuffrida, T Negrete – Cyber Society, Big Data, and …, 2017 – books.google.com
… The emerging computational social science (Nigel, 2010; Cioffi Revilla, 2014; among others) and social media mining … Which Big Data tools should be developed or oriented in supporting decision making in … To do this, we developed a novel Big Data tool that collects information …

Propagator or Influencer?: A Data-driven Approach for Evaluating Emotional Effect in Online Information Diffusion
J Yang, Z Wang, F Di, L Chen, C Yi, Y Xue… – Proceedings of the 2017 …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… famous TABLE I. ITEM AMOUNTS IN OUR EMOTION LEXICON Chinese segmentation tool jieba6. Each element of the word vector is a binary value, which represents whether the corresponding word occurs in the comment text …

Getting Personal!
Y WANG – JSL Vol 26-N5, 2017 – books.google.com
… These educational institutions and leaders used Twitter as an alternative communication tool—along with traditional communication … We view iPads very much as teacher tools … is one of the fast-growing areas in the emerging field of computational social science that uses …

Exploring the Ideological Nature of Journalists’ Social Networks on Twitter and Associations with News Story Content
J Wihbey, TD Coleman, K Joseph, D Lazer – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 – arxiv.org
… KEYWORDS Twitter, journalism, filter bubble, echo chambers, computational social science ACM Reference format: John Wihbey … While these tools are vital, they limit the scale of the analysis and/or … online social media presents a coarse-grained but large-scale tool for exploring …

Semantic homophily in online communication: evidence from twitter
S Š?epanovi?, I Mishkovski, B Gonçalves… – Online Social Networks …, 2017 – Elsevier
… Keywords. Homophily; Semantics; Influence; Semantic relatedness; Twitter; Wikipedia; Social network analysis; Computational social science. 1. Introduction … Hence a new research field termed computational social science emerged [36]. Our study is situated within this field …

Construction Detection in a Conventional NLP Pipeline
J Dunietz, L Levin, MRL Petruck – 2017 – cs.cmu.edu
… Natural language processing (NLP) systems, following the linguistic tradition, conventionally treat linguistic structures as a … of both form and meaning, CxG-based tools should outperform … of the ACL 2014 Workshop on Language Technologies and Computational Social Science …

On the statistical properties of viral misinformation in online social media
A Bessi – Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2017 – Elsevier
… we believe that both our findings and the methodology used herein may be of interest to the broader field of computational social science dealing with … We check the iid assumption by means of the records plot, a simple and intuitive exploratory tool widely used in extreme value …

Through a different gate: An automated content analysis of how online news and print news differ
C Burggraaff, D Trilling – Journalism, 2017 – journals.sagepub.com
… MENU. Browse; Resources: Authors; Librarians; Editors; Societies. My Tools: My Alerts; My Saved Searches; My Favorite Journals; My Account. Advanced Search. IN THIS JOURNAL … Societies. My Tools: My Alerts; My Saved Searches; My Favorite Journals; My Account. Advanced …

Scaling Up Research on Drug Abuse and Addiction Through Social Media Big Data
SJ Kim, LA Marsch, JT Hancock… – Journal of medical Internet …, 2017 – ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… data for informatics can provide population-level inferences, such as pattern or trend recognition [66] and natural language processing [67], for … A balance between ethical principles and scientific discoveries gleaned from novel technology tools should be actively sought and put …

Big data techniques in auditing research and practice: Current trends and future opportunities
A Gepp, MK Linnenluecke, T O’Neill, T Smith – 2017 – papers.ssrn.com
… The language-based tool has an initial training period which uses a decision tree approach to … As stated in Section 2, traditional tools are not adequate for analyzing big data, because it is so … could benefit from advances in natural language processing (NLP), which is used to …

Big scholarly data: A survey
F Xia, W Wang, TM Bekele, H Liu – IEEE Transactions on Big …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… by Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence takes advantages of advanced natural language processing techniques for … Here, we will briefly introduce five mostly used tools namely CiteSpace, Gephi, Pajek … CiteSpace [52] is a free citation analysis tool for visualizing and analyzing …

Geographic visualization in archaeology
N Gupta, R Devillers – Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2017 – Springer
… As a result, archaeologists too often reduce phenomena in size and complexity to match the capabilities of existing tools … inventory and management, or more simply to visualization,” the potential of GIS is constrained, as “it is above all a spatial analysis tool supporting decision …

The Cultural Political Economy of Brexit in the Age of Austerity. A Corpus-Assisted Critical Realist Multimedia Discourse Analysis1
T Griebel, P Heinrich – hannover2017.ipsa.org
… understood as producer of ficts, corpus linguistic tools like keyword analyses are well-suited to deal with a large amount of data and are, therefore, a powerful tool in a time where the … 8 the dominant “digital positivism” within the emerging field of computational social sciences by …

Does it matter how you play? The effects of collaboration and competition among players of human computation games
EPP Pe?Than, DHL Goh, CS Lee – Journal of the Association …, 2017 – Wiley Online Library
… Citation tools … Since then, various types of HCGs have been developed in different problem-solving contexts, including music annotation, website indexing, natural language processing, ontology building, protein folding in biological science, geospatial knowledge collection …

State intervention and agrarian change in China after 2006
W Gong, S Yang – Chinese Sociological Dialogue, 2017 – journals.sagepub.com
Skip to main content. Menus. SAGE Journals. Profile logged-in. Search. MENU. Browse; Resources: Authors; Librarians; Editors; Societies. My Tools: My Alerts; My Saved Searches; My Favorite Journals; My Account. Advanced Search. IN THIS JOURNAL …

The legal macroscope: Experimenting with visual legal analytics
N Lettieri, A Altamura… – Information …, 2017 – journals.sagepub.com
… MENU. Browse; Resources: Authors; Librarians; Editors; Societies. My Tools: My Alerts; My Saved Searches; My Favorite Journals; My Account. Advanced Search. IN THIS JOURNAL … Societies. My Tools: My Alerts; My Saved Searches; My Favorite Journals; My Account. Advanced …

Making better use of the crowd
JW Vaughan – 2017 – media.nips.cc
… machine learning community was early to embrace crowdsourcing as a tool for quickly … system that makes use of cutting edge techniques from natural language processing and crowdsourcing … Using this information, it provides an interface backed by optimization tools that chairs …

Education policy research in the big data era: Methodological frontiers, misconceptions, and challenges
Y Wang – 2017 – scholarworks.gsu.edu
… draw upon the relevant literature on big data in public policy and computational social science to introduce … education policy researchers to venture into big data by applying the tools to education … First, topic models, albeit valuable, are only a blunt tool to explore large corpora …

Fraud, Plot, or Collective Delusion? Social Media and Perceptions of Electoral Misconduct in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum
S Birch, F ElSafoury – Election Law Journal, 2017 – online.liebertpub.com
… is that the social media discussion of electoral conduct was the result of an orchestrated effort by certain groups to discredit the referendum outcome; the “plot” hypothesis sees a hard core of social media-savvy political activists shrewdly exploiting online tools to distort popular …

Text as Social and Cultural
D Nguyen – research.utwente.nl
… the increasing recognition of text as social and cultural data and the emergence of areas such as computational social science and computational … social and cultural phenomena, computational modeling of variation in text could also lead to more effective text processing tools …

Pace of Life in Cities and the Emergence of Town Tweeters
AJ Gross, D Murthy, LR Varshney – SAGE Open, 2017 – journals.sagepub.com
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Do the robot: Lessons from machine learning to improve conflict forecasting
M Colaresi, Z Mahmood – Journal of Peace Research, 2017 – journals.sagepub.com
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Identifying Witness Accounts from Social Media Using Imagery
M Truelove, K Khoshelham, S McLean… – … International Journal of …, 2017 – mdpi.com
This research investigates the use of image category classification to distinguish images posted to social media that are Witness Accounts of an event. Only images depicting observations of the event, captured by micro-bloggers at the event, are considered Witness Accounts. Identifying …

Computationally Assisted Regulatory Participation
MA Livermore, V Eidelman, B Grom – 2017 – papers.ssrn.com
… Part I concludes with an introduction to the computational text analysis tools that can help translate the dilemmas posed by the era of mass public … We then introduce the natural language processing technique referred to as sentiment analysis, which is a tool used to extract …

An information-based procedure for measuring semantic change in historical data
Y Neuman, H Hames, Y Cohen – Measurement, 2017 – Elsevier
… has been proven to be extremely powerful for representing and analyzing meaning in the context of natural language processing and computational social sciences (eg [8 … this context, we prefer to consider the procedure proposed in this paper as a simple tool for exploratory …

Getting the query right for crisis informatics design issues for web-based analysis environments
M Barrenechea, S Jambi, AA Aydin… – Journal of Web …, 2017 – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… researchers who self-identify as information scientists with specializations that draw from other disciplines, such as geography, journalism, and computational social science … Previous research examined the work processes and tools used by analysts in this domain [19] …

Big Data for Monitoring Political Instability
K Donnay – … Policy| Revue internationale de politique de …, 2017 – journals.openedition.org
… Not even a decade after its original publication, the tool has now been … structured and, typically, more easily interpretable, unstructured texts require natural language processing if they … G. King, M. Macy, D. Roy, M. Van Alstyne (2009) ‘Computational Social Science’, Science, 323 …

Who Protests? Using Social Media Data to Estimate How Social Context Affects Political Behavior
THY Chen, P Zachary, CJ Fariss – 2017 – uh.edu
… Our estimator, which measures social context down to the neighborhood level, gives researchers an important new tool … Twitter does not disclose its users race, age, or gender and offers only rudimentary tools to infer location.9 This forces scholars to use aggregate data …

Enhancing team composition in professional networks: Problem definitions and fast solutions
L Li, H Tong, N Cao, K Ehrlich, YR Lin… – IEEE transactions on …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… a software project team wants to develop a new feature of natural language search and a new member with Natural Language Processing (NLP) skill will be … Mathematically, the so-called graph kernel defined on the current and new teams provides a natural tool for such a team …

The role of online reputation management, trolling, and personality traits in the crafting of the virtual self and social media
S Yang, A Quan-Haase, A Nevin… – The SAGE handbook of …, 2017 – books.google.com
… theory’ altogether (Anderson, 2008). With big enough data sets, the argument goes,’knowledge discovery software tools find the patterns and tell the analyst what–and where–they are'(Dyche, 2012). Anderson (2008) has explained …

Opinion Spam Detection in Online Reviews
A Rastogi, M Mehrotra – Journal of Information & Knowledge …, 2017 – World Scientific
… Another category of methods to identify opinion spam includes text mining and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques … that many existing studies (Harris, 2012; Li et al., 2013, 2014b) have used pseudo fake reviews generated through crowdsourcing tools like Amazon …

Developing Computational Approaches to Investigate Health Inequalities
K Polimis – 2017 – digital.lib.washington.edu
… 2002; Turney 2002). Researchers should acknowledge how the method’s history (tool) affects … Computational social science is a field for cautious explorations, and … 9For an in-depth review of the sentiment analysis and its origins in natural language processing see (Pang …

Using social media to predict the future: a systematic literature review
L Phillips, C Dowling, K Shaffer, N Hodas… – arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 – arxiv.org
… This rise in popularity is commensurate with the newly coalescing field of computational social science [112 … Importantly, they find that positive/negative sentiment analysis through the popular OpinionFinder tool [207] leads to no improvement over just using previous DJIA values …

Arguments in big social data analysis: uncovering the hidden rhetoric of sociological data science
CL Lanius – 2017 – search.proquest.com
… attendant analysis tools. Big social data are the large-scale data sets composed of digital … Big data social science (also referred to as computational social. science) applies social science concepts to understanding patterns in online behavior. (Lazer et al., 2009) …

The multifaceted measurement of the individual through language
RL Boyd – 2017 – repositories.lib.utexas.edu
Page 1. Copyright by Ryan Lee Boyd 2017 Page 2. The Dissertation Committee for Ryan Lee Boyd Certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: The Multifaceted Measurement of the Individual through Language Committee …

A Multitheoretical Approach to Big Text Data: Comparing Expressive and Rhetorical Logics in Yelp Reviews
D Margolin, DM Markowitz – Communication Research, 2017 – journals.sagepub.com
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Common Core State Standards on Twitter: Public Sentiment and Opinion Leaders
Y Wang, DJ Fikis – Educational Policy, 2017 – journals.sagepub.com
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A Priori Knowledge in Learning Analytics
J Simon – Learning Analytics: Fundaments, Applications, and …, 2017 – Springer
… data mining” (30), “Knowledge tracing” (20), “Student modeling” (18), “Natural language processing” (12), “Datamining … the emergence of connectivism (Siemens 2005) where LA constitutes a key tool … a need for the apparition of a more data-driven computational social science …

Making Better Use of the Crowd: How Crowdsourcing Can Advance Machine Learning Research
JW Vaughan – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… vision systems [39, 134, 147, 193], provide the linguis- tic annotations needed for common natural language processing tasks [21 … Crowdsourcing has flourished as a research tool outside of the machine learning community as well … It also provides tools for mobile crowdsourcing …

Mass Digitization of Chinese Court Decisions: How to Use Text as Data in the Field of Chinese Law
BL Liebman, M Roberts, RE Stern, AZ Wang – 2017 – papers.ssrn.com
… also coincides with growing interest across the social sciences in treating text as data and using computer science tools to uncover … of these two trends, toward the digitization and public release of court records in China on the one hand and computational social science on the …

Detecting deceptive behavior via integration of discriminative features from multiple modalities
M Abouelenien, V Pérez-Rosas… – IEEE Transactions …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… This is in line with previous research that has suggested that liars use less complex and less detailed sentences [1]. To extract these features, we use a tool provided by Lu [38], which generates indices of syntactic complexity based on the analysis of T-units, which are defined …

The Double-Edged Sword of Big Data in Organizational and Management Research: A Review of Opportunities and Risks
R Wenzel, N Van Quaquebeke – Organizational Research …, 2017 – journals.sagepub.com
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Combining machine-based and econometrics methods for policy analytics insights
RJ Kauffman, K Kim, SYT Lee, AP Hoang… – … Commerce Research and …, 2017 – Elsevier
… Highlights. • Computational social science supports study of e-commerce policy analytics issues. • … Abstract. Computational Social Science (CSS) has become a mainstream approach in the empirical study of policy analytics issues in various domains of e-commerce research …

Testing the event witnessing status of micro-bloggers from evidence in their micro-blogs
M Truelove, M Vasardani, S Winter – PloS one, 2017 – journals.plos.org
This paper demonstrates a framework of processes for identifying potential witnesses of events from evidence they post to social media. The research defines original evidence models for micro-blog content sources, the relative uncertainty of different evidence types, and models …

Social and Behavioral Sciences for National Security: Proceedings of a Summit
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and … – 2017 – books.google.com
… continue. Intelligence analysts and the intelligence community will need access to the appropriate tools and develop- ing knowledge about threats to national security in order to provide the best information to policy makers …

Building a National Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Coalition
RB Garrett, JA Robb, RJ Severinghaus… – The Profession of …, 2017 – books.google.com
… 3) Encourages the expansion of M&S as a tool and subject within higher … based solutions and to maximize the effectiveness of computer-based tools in the … Cloud computing, big data analytics, natural language processing, machine learning, new computer architectures, and the …

Machine Learning for the Sciences DISSERTATION
KM Bache – 2017 – escholarship.org
… power. For both of these analysis styles, machine learning offers a host of powerful tools to tackle historically unapproachable problems. In this dissertation, I present three examples of machine learning tools applied to the sciences …

A Structural Topic Model of the Features and the Cultural Origins of the Baconian Program
P Grajzl, P Murrell – 2017 – papers.ssrn.com
… 2. Structural Topic Modeling The Structural Topic Model (STM), introduced by Roberts et al. (2014, 2016a), is a machine learning tool that belongs to the family of generative probabilistic models developed for analysis of large text corpora …

Improving official statistics in emerging markets using machine learning and mobile phone data
E Jahani, P Sundsøy, J Bjelland… – EPJ Data …, 2017 – epjdatascience.springeropen.com
… transportation systems. Scientists have compared the recent availability of these large-scale datasets to the invention of the microscope [1] and new fields such as Computational Social Science [2] are emerging. Mobile phone …

A Structural Topic Model of the Features and the Cultural Origins of Bacon’s Ideas
P Grajzl, P Murrell – 2017 – cesifo-group.de
… 2. Structural Topic Modeling The Structural Topic Model (STM), introduced by Roberts et al. (2014, 2016a), is a machine learning tool that belongs to the family of generative probabilistic models developed for analysis of large text corpora …

Machine Learning for the Sciences
K Bache – 2017 – escholarship.org
… power. For both of these analysis styles, machine learning offers a host of powerful tools to tackle historically unapproachable problems. In this dissertation, I present three examples of machine learning tools applied to the sciences …

Trump vs. Hillary: What Went Viral During the 2016 US Presidential Election
K Darwish, W Magdy, T Zanouda – International Conference on Social …, 2017 – Springer
… US elections Quantitative analysis Qualitative analysis Computational social science. Download fulltext PDF … Social media is a fertile ground for developing tools and algorithms that can … the Obama campaign data analytics system 1 , a decision-making tool that harnesses …

17 Small Stories Research: A Narrative Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Media
A Georgakopoulou – The SAGE Handbook of Social Media …, 2017 – books.google.com
17 Small Stories Research: A Narrative Paradigm for the Analysis of Social Media Alexandra Georgakopoulou In this chapter I present the main rationale, methods and analytical tools for extending small stories research, a narrative and identities analysis paradigm, to social …

Temporal Dimension of Text: Quantification, Metrics and Features
SG Rizzo – 2017 – amsdottorato.unibo.it
… Using natural language processing (NLP) techniques, specifically information extraction methods, it is possible to … These tools follow rule-based approaches that are based on regular … 93], such as compu- tational history[15, 64] and computational social science [86], which aim at …

Weighted Networks: Applications from Power grid construction to crowd control
TC McAndrew – 2017 – search.proquest.com
… 2.4 we introduce and study a new model of percolation for spatial networks as an important tool for infrastructure … hypothesize that language and sentiment biases play a signicant role in these statements, and that tools from natural language processing and computational …

Perceived strategic value-based adoption of Big Data Analytics in emerging economy: A qualitative approach for Indian firms
S Verma, SS Bhattacharyya – Journal of Enterprise Information …, 2017 – emeraldinsight.com
… BDA is defined as technologies (ie data mining tools and database) and techniques (ie analytical methods) that an organization can employ to analyze huge volume of complex data for various applications (Kwon et al., 2014) …

Consuming America: A Data-Driven Analysis of the United States as a Reference Culture in Dutch Public Discourse on Consumer Goods, 1890-1990
M Wevers – 2017 – dspace.library.uu.nl
… Section 1.6 discusses my approach to text mining and presents the computational tools and techniques I have used … States.21 Section 1.6 lays out the thesis’s methodological approach to computational methods and discusses the computational tools and …

Global Knowledge Dynamics and Social Technology
T Petzold – 2017 – books.google.com
Page 1. – – – Thomas Petzold – – – – – C — * – – C — — – c – * – – – Page 2. Global Knowledge Dynamics and Social Technology Page 3 …

Beautiful and damned. Combined effect of content quality and social ties on user engagement
LM Aiello, R Schifanella, M Redi… – … on Knowledge and …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… as long as possible. However, those could not be addressed in the past due to the scarcity of large-scale data suitable for such analysis and the lack of reliable and efficient tools to measure content quality. 6.1 Distribution of …

Computational Fact Checking by Mining Knowledge Graphs
P Shiralkar – 2017 – search.proquest.com
… The reason lies in the fundamental challenges of named entity recognition. and relation extraction in natural language processing (NLP) (Cambria and White, 2014; Manning … can be analyzed using the theory and tools of network science (Newman, 2010) and machine learning …

Capturing time in space
HTO Tenkanen – 2017 – helda.helsinki.fi
… One of the most important conceptual and analytical tools that can help understand the wealth of issues related to developing our urban-rural … Hence, it has long been an important conceptual tool for planning (Metzger 1996), as equity and social justice are considered as basic …

Discovering and Mitigating Social Data Bias
F Morstatter – 2017 – search.proquest.com
… online. This has led to Twitter being called the fruit fly, or model organism, for. computational social sciences research (Tufekci 2014). Despite … 2013). The objective of this thesis is to provide tools and techniques to identify and. mitigate …

Statistical Models for Linguistic Variation in Online Media
V Kulkarni – 2017 – search.proquest.com
… net through the lens of natural language processing, machine learning and … Analyzing the language. of social media users is a rich playground for computational social science … While frequency analysis (like Google Trends) is an extremely useful tool to …

Emergence of Communication in Socio-Biological Networks
A Berea – 2017 – Springer
… A. Berea, Emergence of Communication in Socio-Biological Networks, Computational Social Sciences, https://doi … Economics is an incredibly powerful “tool” for understanding human behavior, particularly … of intergenerational transmission of culture and use of tools in cetaceans …

The Digipolitical Animal: Investigating the Memetic Diffusion of Political Messages on Twitter
JC Clark – 2017 – search.proquest.com
… For. many of Donald Trumps followers, Twitter is seen as a tool that can be used to bypass the. biased media (Presto, Gingras, & Welch, 2017) … DATA COLLECTION. There are a variety of tools that have been created in order to collect the readily. available data on Twitter …

Service robots in hospitals: new perspectives on niche evolution and technology affordances
T Mettler, M Sprenger, R Winter – European Journal of Information …, 2017 – Taylor & Francis

Assessing Consequential Scenarios in a Complex Operational Environment Using Agent Based Simulation
A James, J Pierowicz, M Moskal, T Hanratty, D Tuttle… – 2017 – dtic.mil
… 5.1.16 Virtual Strategic Analysis and Forecasting Tool (V-SAFT) 100 … That is, might recent advancements in computational social science, agent-based modeling (ABM) and simulations, and … Modeling reviews current state-of-the-art ABM capabilities, exploring tools that exhibit …

The Role of Mobile Technology in Tourism: Patents, Articles, News, and Mobile Tour App Reviews
D Kim, S Kim – Sustainability, 2017 – mdpi.com
The purpose of this research is to identify the status and role of mobile technology in achieving sustainable and smart tourism, and to suggest future research and strategy directions for academia and managers in practice. This research utilized multiple sources, such as patents, academic …

Scaffolding Crowd Work: An Empirical Analysis of its Effects on Quality of Work
M Streuer – 2017 – diva-portal.org
Page 1. i Linköping University | Department of Management and Engineering Master’s thesis, 30 credits| Industrial Engineering and Management Autumn 2017| LIU-IEI-TEK-A–17/02974–SE SCAFFOLDING CROWD WORK …

Towards real-time, country-level location classification of worldwide tweets
A Zubiaga, A Voss, R Procter, M Liakata… – … on Knowledge and …, 2017 – ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Ç 1 INTRODUCTION SOCIAL media are increasingly being used in the scientific community as a key source of data to help understand diverse natural and social phenomena, and this has prompted the development of a wide range of computa- tional data mining tools that can …

The citizen-user and the crowd-mediated politics of the Five Star Movement
F Bailo – 2017 – ses.library.usyd.edu.au
… This is achieved by applying quantitative methods, including network analysis and natural language processing, on 10 years of user-generated data collected mainly from four sources: the blog of the Movement’s founder, the M5S official … 81 1 Computational social science …

Predictive Modeling of Human Behavior
A Bogomolov – 2017 – pdfs.semanticscholar.org
… for human behavior understanding on personal and group level, thus fuel up Computational Social Science and Social … The main weakness of this tool is that the measuring method at the end is … that the smartphone should be taken seriously as new research tools for psychology …

Studying the Digital: Directions and Challenges for Digital Methods
KN Hampton – Annual Review of Sociology, 2017 – annualreviews.org
… In addition to the textual analysis of online content and natural-language-processing and machine-learning approaches to textual analysis (Evans & Aceves 2016 … are part of a growing trend, explored in more detail in a later section, of using digital technologies as a tool to study …

Entropic selection of concepts in networks of similarity between documents
A Martini, A Cardillo, PDL Rios – arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06510, 2017 – arxiv.org
… 1 (SW); whose aim is: “to create a suite of convenient web-based tools that will … triggered a flurry of ac- tivity in many disciplines such as computational social science and science … It is worth remarking that entropy has already been used in natural language processing to quantify …

Public Communication and Tacit Collusion in the Airline Industry
G Aryal, F Ciliberto, BT Leyden – 2017 – benleyden.com
… 7 Page 8. Lastly, our paper is also related to the growing economic and computational social science literature that uses text as data. We use natural language processing (NLP) techniques in a num … Then, we use additional NLP and machine learning tools in order to con …

Introduction To Big Data: Infrastructure And Networking Considerations
SB Sriramoju – 2017 – books.google.com
… Techniques for analyzing data, such as A/B testing, machine learning and natural language processing 11 … Data-capture ? Data journalism: publishers and journalists use big data tools to provide … big data has come to prominence within Business Operations as a tool to help …

Attacking Automatic Video Analysis Algorithms: A Case Study of Google Cloud Video Intelligence API
H Hosseini, B Xiao, A Clark… – Proceedings of the 2017 on …, 2017 – dl.acm.org
… explosion in demand. To further broaden and simplify the use of ML algorithms, cloud-based service providers such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, BigML, and others have developed ML-as-a-service tools. Thus, users and …

Bias and Beyond in Digital Trace Data
MM Malik – 2017 – mominmalik.com
Page 1. Carnegie Mellon Univeristy Thesis Proposal Bias and beyond in digital trace data Author: Momin M. Malik Committee: Dr. Jürgen Pfeffer (Co-chair), Institute for Software Research Dr. Anind K. Dey (Co-chair), Human …

The Dynamics Of Distributed Digital Innovation
JV Andersen – wrap.warwick.ac.uk
… 70 3.1.1 Critical Realism and Computational Social Science … The very fundamental point of building a social collaboration tool is to connect users and engage them in shared activities where the … trace data and computational tools to analyse them …

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