arXiv Machine Learning

AI Application Gives Users Real-Time Feedback on the Level of Peace in the Social Media Videos They Watch

arXiv:2601. 05232v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most people now get their news from videos on social media, such as YouTube and Facebook, rather than through curated journalism.

arXiv AI
Aug 7

Automatic Detection of Deaths from Social Networking Sites

arXiv:2608. 05183v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This dissertation analysed and discussed the differences in linguistic characteristics between pre-mortem and post-mortem social media content, and reported machine learning (ML) classifiers that achieved high performance in automatically detecting deaths of social networking site users from posts associated with their profiles.

By Nuhu Ibrahim, Riza Batista-Navarro
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Posts of Peril: Detecting Information About Hazards in Text

arXiv:2405. 17838v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Socio-linguistic indicators of affectively-relevant phenomena, such as emotion or sentiment, are often extracted from text to better understand features of human-computer interactions, including on social media.

By Keith Burghardt, Daniel M. T. Fessler, Chyna Tang, Anne Pisor, Kristina Lerman
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Measuring a hate speech spectrum with faceted Rasch item response theory and perspective-aware, explainable-by-design deep learning

arXiv:2009. 10277v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a system for measuring hate speech on a continuous, interval-valued spectrum ranging from genocidal to supportive speech by combining supervised deep learning with faceted Rasch item response theory (IRT).

By Chris J. Kennedy, Geoff Bacon, Alexander Sahn, Claudia von Vacano
arXiv AI
Aug 5

VIBE: A VAD-Informed Benchmark for Entity-Centered Affective Profiling of Large Language Model Outputs

arXiv:2608. 03810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models routinely describe socially salient targets, including political figures, countries, religions, organizations, historical events, and social groups, encoding affective framing alongside factual content: a target may appear favorable or threatening, calm or conflictual, powerful or vulnerable.

By Andrei Chetvergov, Alexander Evseev, Timofei Sivoraksha, Stepan Ukolov, Mikhail Solovev, Danil Sazanakov, Sergey Bolovtsov