no code implementations • ACL 2022 • Pavan Holur, Tianyi Wang, Shadi Shahsavari, Timothy Tangherlini, Vwani Roychowdhury
In these, an outside group threatens the integrity of an inside group, leading to the emergence of sharply defined group identities: Insiders -- agents with whom the authors identify and Outsiders -- agents who threaten the insiders.
no code implementations • 3 May 2021 • Pavan Holur, Shadi Shahsavari, Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Vwani Roychowdhury
Readers' responses to literature have received scant attention in computational literary studies.
no code implementations • 23 Aug 2020 • Timothy R. Tangherlini, Shadi Shahsavari, Behnam Shahbazi, Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh, Vwani Roychowdhury
We base this work on two separate repositories of posts and news articles describing the well-known conspiracy theory Pizzagate from 2016, and the New Jersey conspiracy Bridgegate from 2013.
no code implementations • 28 Apr 2020 • Shadi Shahsavari, Pavan Holur, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Vwani Roychowdhury
Understanding the dynamics of storytelling on social media and the narrative frameworks that provide the generative basis for these stories may also be helpful for devising methods to disrupt their spread.
no code implementations • 20 Apr 2020 • Shadi Shahsavari, Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh, Behnam Shahbazi, Misagh Falahi, Pavan Holur, Roja Bandari, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Vwani Roychowdhury
We represent this framework in the form of an actant-relationship story graph.