Social media is a modern person's digital voice to project and engage with new ideas and
mobilise communities—a power shared with extremists. Given the societal risks of unvetted …

A vast amount of location information exists in unstructured texts, such as social media
posts, news stories, scientific articles, web pages, travel blogs, and historical archives …

Opinion polarization in online social networks causes a lot of concerns on its social,
economic, and political impacts, and is becoming an important topic for academic research …

We introduce a generic, language-independent method to collect a large percentage of
offensive and hate tweets regardless of their topics or genres. We harness the extralinguistic …

Every day millions of people use social media platforms by generating a very large amount
of opinion-rich data, which can be exploited to extract valuable information about human …

As part of the “text-as-data” movement, Natural Language Processing (NLP) provides a
computational way to examine political polarization. We conducted a methodological …

The use of sentiment analysis methods has increased in recent years across a wide range of
disciplines. Despite the potential impact of the development of opinions during political …

Political tensions have grown throughout Europe since the beginning of the new century.
The consecutive crises led to the rise of different social movements in several countries, in …

Social media platforms are part of everyday life, allowing the interconnection of people
around the world in large discussion groups relating to every topic, including important …

The growing use of microblogging platforms is generating a huge amount of posts that need
effective methods to be classified and searched. In Twitter and other social media platforms …