Social Computing Lab, led by Jana Diesner
Integrating methods from network analysis, natural language processing, and machine learning with theories from the social sciences to advance knowledge and discovery about interaction-based and communication-based social systems

Tutorial

  • Information extraction from social media: A hands-on tutorial on tasks, data, and open source tools [link]

    • IC2S2 2020 Presentations (orange text: the presentation date / time at the conference)

    1. Mishra, S., Han. K., Yang, P., Li, K., & Diesner, J. (2020). Human-in-the-loop construction of a knowledge base for computer science through Wikipedia. [video] (2:45 PM - 3:00 PM CDT on July 19)
    2. Parulian, N., Lu, T., Mishra, S., Avram, M., & Diesner, J. (2020). Adversarial perturbations to manipulate the perception of power and influence in networks. [video] (3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT on July 18)
    3. Rezapour, R., Park, J., & Diesner, J. (2020). Detecting characteristics of cross-cutting language networks on social media. [video] (3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT on July 20)
    4. Rezapour, R., Bopp, J., Fiedler, N., Steffen, D., Witt, A., & Diesner, J. (2020). Beyond citation: Corpus-based methods for assessing the impact of research outcomes on society. [video] (3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT on July 19)
    5. Dinh, L., Sarol, J., & Diesner, J. (2020). How does situational awareness of emergencies depend on choices about data sources, analysis methods, and implementation of algorithms? [video] (3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT on July 18)
    6. Dinh, L.*, Rezapour, R.*, Jiang, L., & Diesner, J. (2020). Assessing balance in signed digraphs by combining balance and transitivity. (*Equal contribution) [video] (3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT on July 19)
    7. Mishra, A., Rezapour, R., Park, J., & Diesner, J. (2020). Leveraging topic modeling to enhance the interpretability of stance detection. [video] (3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CDT on July 20)

     

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