Search Results for author: Shadi Shahsavari

Found 5 papers, 0 papers with code

Which side are you on? Insider-Outsider classification in conspiracy-theoretic social media

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.

Language Modelling

An automated pipeline for the discovery of conspiracy and conspiracy theory narrative frameworks: Bridgegate, Pizzagate and storytelling on the web

no code implementations23 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.

Conspiracy in the Time of Corona: Automatic detection of Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories in Social Media and the News

no code implementations28 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.

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