Sentic computing is a multi-disciplinary approach to sentiment analysis at the crossroads
between affective computing and commonsense computing, which exploits both computer …

Online social networks (OSNs) are part of daily life of human beings. Millions of users are
connected through online social networks. Due to very large number of users and huge …

Online hate speech, particularly over microblogging platforms like Twitter, has emerged as
arguably the most severe issue of the past decade. Several countries have reported a steep …

Curbing online hate speech has become the need of the hour; however, a blanket ban on
such activities is infeasible for several geopolitical and cultural reasons. To reduce the …

Computational Social Science (CSS), aiming at utilizing computational methods to address
social science problems, is a recent emerging and fast-developing field. The study of CSS is …

Modeling social media activity has numerous practical implications such as in helping
analyze strategic information operations, designing intervention techniques to mitigate …

Twitter is widely used by software developers. But how effective are tweets at promoting
open source projects? How could one use Twitter to increase a project's popularity or attract …

Since the proliferation of social media usage, hate speech has become a major crisis.
Hateful content can spread quickly and create an environment of distress and hostility …

Accurately modeling information diffusion within and across social media platforms has
many practical applications, such as estimating the size of the audience exposed to a …

This paper proposes a data-driven method that forecasts groups of topic-related,
overlapping, online conversation trees. Our method is generative: given a group of original …