Search Results for author: Luca Maria Aiello

Found 12 papers, 1 papers with code

The Persuasive Power of Large Language Models

no code implementations24 Dec 2023 Simon Martin Breum, Daniel Vædele Egdal, Victor Gram Mortensen, Anders Giovanni Møller, Luca Maria Aiello

The increasing capability of Large Language Models to act as human-like social agents raises two important questions in the area of opinion dynamics.

Persuasiveness

Dream Content Discovery from Reddit with an Unsupervised Mixed-Method Approach

no code implementations9 Jul 2023 Anubhab Das, Sanja Šćepanović, Luca Maria Aiello, Remington Mallett, Deirdre Barrett, Daniele Quercia

Going beyond traditional scales, our method can find unique patterns in different dream types (like nightmares or recurring dreams), understand topic importance and connections, and observe changes in collective dream experiences over time and around major events, like the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent Russo-Ukrainian war.

The Parrot Dilemma: Human-Labeled vs. LLM-augmented Data in Classification Tasks

2 code implementations26 Apr 2023 Anders Giovanni Møller, Jacob Aarup Dalsgaard, Arianna Pera, Luca Maria Aiello

In the realm of Computational Social Science (CSS), practitioners often navigate complex, low-resource domains and face the costly and time-intensive challenges of acquiring and annotating data.

Data Augmentation Language Modelling +2

Heterogeneous rarity patterns drive price dynamics in NFT collections

no code implementations21 Apr 2022 Amin Mekacher, Alberto Bracci, Matthieu Nadini, Mauro Martino, Laura Alessandretti, Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Baronchelli

We quantify Non Fungible Token (NFT) rarity and investigate how it impacts market behaviour by analysing a dataset of 3. 7M transactions collected between January 2018 and June 2022, involving 1. 4M NFTs distributed across 410 collections.

Epidemic Dreams: Dreaming about health during the COVID-19 pandemic

no code implementations2 Feb 2022 Sanja Šćepanović, Luca Maria Aiello, Deirdre Barrett, Daniele Quercia

Given the unprecedented nature of the experiences during COVID-19, we studied the continuity hypothesis in the context of the pandemic.

The Healthy States of America: Creating a Health Taxonomy with Social Media

no code implementations1 Mar 2021 Sanja Scepanovic, Luca Maria Aiello, Ke Zhou, Sagar Joglekar, Daniele Quercia

We validated the structure of our taxonomy against the official International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11), finding matches of our clusters with 20 official categories, out of 22.

The Language of Dialogue Is Complex

no code implementations5 Jun 2019 Alexander Robertson, Luca Maria Aiello, Daniele Quercia

Integrative Complexity (IC) is a psychometric that measures the ability of a person to recognize multiple perspectives and connect them, thus identifying paths for conflict resolution.

Portrait of an Online Shopper: Understanding and Predicting Consumer Behavior

no code implementations15 Dec 2015 Farshad Kooti, Kristina Lerman, Luca Maria Aiello, Mihajlo Grbovic, Nemanja Djuric, Vladan Radosavljevic

Linking online shopping to income, we find that shoppers from more affluent areas purchase more expensive items and buy them more frequently, resulting in significantly more money spent on online purchases.

Social and Information Networks Computers and Society

Smelly Maps: The Digital Life of Urban Smellscapes

no code implementations26 May 2015 Daniele Quercia, Rossano Schifanella, Luca Maria Aiello, Kate McLean

We match those tags and tweets with the words in the smell dictionary.

Social and Information Networks Computers and Society

People are Strange when you're a Stranger: Impact and Influence of Bots on Social Networks

no code implementations30 Jul 2014 Luca Maria Aiello, Martina Deplano, Rossano Schifanella, Giancarlo Ruffo

Bots are, for many Web and social media users, the source of many dangerous attacks or the carrier of unwanted messages, such as spam.

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