{"title":"Invited Talk: On Proactive Sentence Specific Popularity Forecasting","authors":"Sayar Ghosh Roy","doi":"10.1145/3544795.3544849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3544795.3544849","url":null,"abstract":"In this draft, we introduce the reader to the problem of popularity prediction. We highlight the existing directions of work in the area, and lay out the foundation for the task of proactively forecasting relative information popularity of individual sentences within online news documents. We discuss the key challenges and potential business applications for this novel task and note down the main contributions of our work presented at HT ’22 [7]. Lastly, we discuss some interesting avenues of future work.","PeriodicalId":103807,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133246195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classifying Anti-Mask Tweets into Misclassification vs. Rejection: A Year-Long Study","authors":"Julia Warnken, S. Gokhale","doi":"10.1145/3544795.3544845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3544795.3544845","url":null,"abstract":"The debate over masks has played out vigorously over social media platforms such as Twitter over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. Anti-maskers oppose the use of face masks on two philosophical grounds. First, they question their effectiveness and second, they reject them as an infringement of their personal liberties and freedoms. Both these narratives can be damaging in their own respective ways; misinformation can mislead people to abandon this simple public health measure, and rejection can incite unrest, disobedience and violence. Different policies, ranging from completely removing the tweet to simply placing a warning label, may be applied to these two types of anti-mask tweets to mitigate their damage. To facilitate these differentiated policy decisions, driven by the state of the pandemic and the surrounding social and political circumstances, this paper proposes a machine learning approach to separate anti-mask tweets into misinformation and rejection. Linguistic, social, auxiliary, and sentiment features are extracted from this corpus of tweets collected over the first year. A combination of these features is used to train ensemble and neural network classifiers. The results show that our machine learning framework can separate between misinformation and rejection tweets with a F1-score of around 0.90. These results are noteworthy because the framework can classify between two groups of tweets that share a common overall theme of anti-masking yet have only subtle differences. Moreover, the data collected over a period of one year implies that this separation is achieved even when the anti-masking rhetoric is embedded in widely varying social and political contexts.","PeriodicalId":103807,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors","volume":"204 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116186569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SIDEWAYS-2022 @ HT-2022: 7th International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors","authors":"Mario Cataldi, Luigi Di Caro, C. Schifanella","doi":"10.1145/3544795.3544844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3544795.3544844","url":null,"abstract":"This seventh edition of the workshop aims at bringing together academics and practitioners from different areas to promote the vision of social media as social sensors. Nowadays, Social media platforms represent freely-accessible information networks allowing registered (and unregistered) users to read, share and broadcast messages referring to a potentially-unlimited range of arguments, by also exploiting the immediateness of handy smart devices. This long-running workshop aims at focusing the attention on a particular perspective of these powerful communication channels, which is that of social sensors, where each user reacts in real time to the underlying reality by providing some own interpretation. Technologies and AI artifacts may support automatic or semi-automatic applications for information detection and integration, offering sideways to the existing authoritative information media and the information reported by the surrounding community.","PeriodicalId":103807,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors","volume":" 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132124513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a Cross-Domain Context-Aware Recommender of Optimal Experiences","authors":"Sabrina Villata, F. Cena","doi":"10.1145/3544795.3544853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3544795.3544853","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, many people suffer from depression, anxiety disorder, stress and bad emotions. Most of the times, the causes are a chaotic lifestyle, stressful jobs and activities, wrong habits and a permanent sense of uncertainty. Therefore, well-being plays an increasingly important role in people’s lives, as it can help them to prevent chronic disease and long-term illnesses. However, well-being does not concern only healthy lifestyle, rather it is necessary to consider also mental health and interior happiness. In this position paper, we propose the idea of FlowMe, a cross-domain context-aware recommender system of optimal experiences, i.e. situations when people report feelings of deep enjoyment, forgetting the passage of time and external worries, and reaching an inner harmony on which their general happiness depends. In our perspective, FlowMe could be connected to different IoT devices and applications, such as social media, to collect data from the users and learn their mood, behaviour and habits, in order to suggest personalized optimal experiences when they are feeling a negative emotion. Also, the system will recognise when the user is in the flow doing a certain activity. FlowMe takes into account optimal experiences from various domains, considering users’ preferences and their context.","PeriodicalId":103807,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124529016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Corpus and Lexicon for Offensive Tamazight Language Detection","authors":"K. Abainia, Kenza Kara, Tassadit Hamouni","doi":"10.1145/3544795.3544852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3544795.3544852","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we address the offensive language detection on Tamazight language, which is one of the under-resourced languages that are still in their infancy and lack of standard orthography. We are particularly interested in the Kabyle dialect, mainly spoken in some cities of northern Algeria (i.e. Tizi-ouzou and Bejaïa). We propose a new corpus of offensive Tamazight language (i.e. OTAM corpus) compiling 6.2k texts, as well as a new lexicon of offensive and abusive Tamazight words with 12.6k entries. We have evaluated several baseline classifiers of machine learning and deep learning, where the results showed that we could produce acceptable results without features engineering.","PeriodicalId":103807,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125171843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis and Visualization of the Sense Of Place from Twitter Data","authors":"Michele Lanotte, Giovanni Siracusa","doi":"10.1145/3544795.3544854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3544795.3544854","url":null,"abstract":"Social networks (e.g., Twitter or Facebook) are part of our daily life, where we disclose opinions, activities, interests, and so forth. For this reasons, scientific community started to consider people as social sensor in many fields. In this context, we propose a study on the Sense of Place, i.e. the sentiment associated to a geographical location, defined by the geographer Tim Cresswell. We started by collecting and annotating tweets on 4 cities that have English as their mother-tongue, in order to find those which express the Sense of Place. Then, we defined a pipeline to discover both the sentiment (positive or negative) expressed towards the place and the geographical location of the tweet according to its text. The data extracted by the pipeline are then aggregated and visualized by a graphic interface, which allows the exploration of the dataset.","PeriodicalId":103807,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128880157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}