no code implementations • 19 Jun 2023 • Isabelle van der Vegt
Online abuse and threats towards politicians have become a significant concern in the Netherlands, like in many other countries across the world.
no code implementations • 1 Feb 2023 • Isabelle van der Vegt, Bennett Kleinberg
Besides far-reaching public health consequences, the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant psychological impact on people around the world.
no code implementations • 7 Jul 2021 • Maximilian Mozes, Isabelle van der Vegt, Bennett Kleinberg
The introduction of COVID-19 lockdown measures and an outlook on return to normality are demanding societal changes.
1 code implementation • 10 Sep 2020 • Isabelle van der Vegt, Maximilian Mozes, Bennett Kleinberg, Paul Gill
This paper introduces the Grievance Dictionary, a psycholinguistic dictionary which can be used to automatically understand language use in the context of grievance-fuelled violence threat assessment.
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2020 • Isabelle van der Vegt, Bennett Kleinberg, Paul Gill
The problem of online threats and abuse could potentially be mitigated with a computational approach, where sources of abuse are better understood or identified through author profiling.
no code implementations • 17 Apr 2020 • Isabelle van der Vegt, Bennett Kleinberg
Among the critical challenges around the COVID-19 pandemic is dealing with the potentially detrimental effects on people's mental health.
5 code implementations • ACL 2020 • Bennett Kleinberg, Isabelle van der Vegt, Maximilian Mozes
This resulted in the Real World Worry Dataset of 5, 000 texts (2, 500 short + 2, 500 long texts).
no code implementations • 30 Aug 2019 • Isabelle van der Vegt, Maximilian Mozes, Paul Gill, Bennett Kleinberg
We also observe structural breakpoints in the use of bigrams at the time of the rally, suggesting there are changes in language use within the two groups as a result of the rally.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2018 • Bennett Kleinberg, Maximilian Mozes, Isabelle van der Vegt
Vlogs provide a rich public source of data in a novel setting.