Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is a trusted source of knowledge for millions of individuals worldwide. As everyone can start a new article, it is often necessary to decide whether certain entries meet the standards for inclusion set forth by the …
A key factor in the dissemination of inauthentic information on social media is the interaction between human cognitive bias and algorithmic content curation. Research shows that some people have strong preferences for pro-attitudinal content. …
The volume and velocity of information that gets generated
online limits current journalistic practices to fact-check claims at the
same rate. Computational approaches for fact checking may be the key to
help mitigate the risks of massive …
Online social media and games are increasingly replacing
offline social activities. Social media is now an indispensable mode of
communication; online gaming is not only a genuine social activity but also
a popular spectator sport. Although online …
We present RelSifter, a supervised learning approach to the
problem of assigning relevance scores to triples expressing type-like relations
such as 'profession' and 'nationality.' To provide additional contextual
information about individuals and …
Unstructured textual data from online profiles is often used in conjunction
with other user metadata to mine, in a supervised fashion, the latent
demographic attributes of social media users (e.g. age, gender,
occupation). Supervised methods, …
Fashion is a multi-billion dollar industry with social and economic implications worldwide. To gain popularity, brands want to be represented by the top popular models. As new faces are selected using stringent (and often criticized) aesthetic …
Massive amounts of misinformation have been observed to spread in
uncontrolled fashion across social media. Examples include rumors, hoaxes,
fake news, and conspiracy theories. At the same time, several journalistic
organizations devote significant …
Traditional fact checking by expert journalists cannot keep up
with the enormous volume of information that is now generated online.
Computational fact checking may significantly enhance our ability to evaluate
the veracity of dubious information. …