Search Results for author: Oana Balalau

Found 7 papers, 4 papers with code

Breaking Down the Invisible Wall of Informal Fallacies in Online Discussions

1 code implementation ACL 2021 Saumya Sahai, Oana Balalau, Roxana Horincar

In this paper, we study the most frequent fallacies on Reddit, and we present them using the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation.

From the Stage to the Audience: Propaganda on Reddit

1 code implementation EACL 2021 Oana Balalau, Roxana Horincar

In this work, we analyze the impact of propaganda on six major political forums on Reddit that target a diverse audience in two countries, the US and the UK.

Graph integration of structured, semistructured and unstructured data for data journalism

no code implementations23 Jul 2020 Oana Balalau, Catarina Conceiç{ã}o, Helena Galhardas, Ioana Manolescu, Tayeb Merabti, Jingmao You, Youssr Youssef

Nowadays, journalism is facilitated by the existence of large amounts of digital data sources, including many Open Data ones.

EviDense: a Graph-based Method for Finding Unique High-impact Events with Succinct Keyword-based Descriptions

1 code implementation5 Dec 2019 Oana Balalau, Carlos Castillo, Mauro Sozio

Despite the significant efforts made by the research community in recent years, automatically acquiring valuable information about high impact-events from social media remains challenging.

Discovering the Functions of Language in Online Forums

no code implementations WS 2019 Youmna Ismaeil, Oana Balalau, Paramita Mirza

In this work, we revisit the functions of language proposed by linguist Roman Jakobson and we highlight their potential in analyzing online forum conversations.

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