Search Results for author: Virgílio A. F. Almeida

Found 2 papers, 2 papers with code

Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube

1 code implementation22 Aug 2019 Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Raphael Ottoni, Robert West, Virgílio A. F. Almeida, Wagner Meira

Non-profits, as well as the media, have hypothesized the existence of a radicalization pipeline on YouTube, claiming that users systematically progress towards more extreme content on the platform.

Computers and Society Social and Information Networks

Characterizing and Detecting Hateful Users on Twitter

2 code implementations23 Mar 2018 Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Pedro H. Calais, Yuri A. Santos, Virgílio A. F. Almeida, Wagner Meira Jr

We observe that hateful users are densely connected, and thus formulate the hate speech detection problem as a task of semi-supervised learning over a graph, exploiting the network of connections on Twitter.

Computers and Society Social and Information Networks

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