Svitlana Volkova

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Truth of Varying Shades: Analyzing Language in Fake News and Political Fact-Checking
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We present an analytic study on the language of news media in the context of political fact-checking and fake news detection to find linguistic characteristics of untrustworthy text. Expand
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Separating Facts from Fiction: Linguistic Models to Classify Suspicious and Trusted News Posts on Twitter
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We build predictive models to classify 130 thousand news posts as suspicious or verified, and predict four sub-types of suspicious news – satire, hoaxes, clickbait and propaganda. Expand
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Exploring Demographic Language Variations to Improve Multilingual Sentiment Analysis in Social Media
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We show that gender bias in the use of subjective language can effectively be used to improve sentiment analysis, and in particular, polarity classification for Spanish and Russian. Expand
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Inferring User Political Preferences from Streaming Communications
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We show that even when limited or no selfauthored data is available, language from friend, retweet and user mention communications provide sufficient evidence for prediction. Expand
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RuSentiment: An Enriched Sentiment Analysis Dataset for Social Media in Russian
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This paper presents RuSentiment, a new dataset for sentiment analysis of social media posts in Russian, and a new set of comprehensive annotation guidelines that are extensible to other languages. Expand
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Inferring Latent User Properties from Texts Published in Social Media
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We demonstrate an approach to predict latent personal attributes including user demographics, online personality, emotions and sentiments from texts published on Twitter. Expand
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Inferring Perceived Demographics from User Emotional Tone and User-Environment Emotional Contrast
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We examine communications in a social network to study user emotional contrast – the propensity of users to express different emotions than those expressed by their neighbors. Expand
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On Predicting Sociodemographic Traits and Emotions from Communications in Social Networks and Their Implications to Online Self-Disclosure
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Social media services such as Twitter and Facebook are virtual environments where people express their thoughts, emotions, and opinions and where they reveal themselves to their peers. Expand
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CrystalBall: A Visual Analytic System for Future Event Discovery and Analysis from Social Media Data
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We present an interactive visual analytic system, CrystalBall, that automatically identifies and ranks future events from Twitter streams. Expand
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Fishing for Clickbaits in Social Images and Texts with Linguistically-Infused Neural Network Models
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This paper presents the results and conclusions of our participation in the Clickbait Challenge 2017 on automatic clickbait detection in social media. Expand
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