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- ItemAnalyzing social media for measuring public attitudes toward controversies and their driving factors: a case study of migration(Wien : Springer, 2022) Chen, Yiyi; Sack, Harald; Alam, MehwishAmong other ways of expressing opinions on media such as blogs, and forums, social media (such as Twitter) has become one of the most widely used channels by populations for expressing their opinions. With an increasing interest in the topic of migration in Europe, it is important to process and analyze these opinions. To this end, this study aims at measuring the public attitudes toward migration in terms of sentiments and hate speech from a large number of tweets crawled on the decisive topic of migration. This study introduces a knowledge base (KB) of anonymized migration-related annotated tweets termed as MigrationsKB (MGKB). The tweets from 2013 to July 2021 in the European countries that are hosts of immigrants are collected, pre-processed, and filtered using advanced topic modeling techniques. BERT-based entity linking and sentiment analysis, complemented by attention-based hate speech detection, are performed to annotate the curated tweets. Moreover, external databases are used to identify the potential social and economic factors causing negative public attitudes toward migration. The analysis aligns with the hypothesis that the countries with more migrants have fewer negative and hateful tweets. To further promote research in the interdisciplinary fields of social sciences and computer science, the outcomes are integrated into MGKB, which significantly extends the existing ontology to consider the public attitudes toward migrations and economic indicators. This study further discusses the use-cases and exploitation of MGKB. Finally, MGKB is made publicly available, fully supporting the FAIR principles.
- ItemDiving into Knowledge Graphs for Patents: Open Challenges and Benefits(Aachen, Germany : RWTH Aachen, 2023) Dessi, Danilo; Dessi, Rima; Alam, Mehwish; Trojahn, Cassia; Hertling, Sven; Pesquita, Catia; Aebeloe, Christian; Aras, Hidir; Azzam, Amr; Cano, Juan; Domingue, John; Gottschalk, Simon; Hartig, Olaf; Hose, Katja; Kirrane, Sabrina; Lisena, Pasquale; Osborne, Francesco; Rohde, Philipp; Steels, Luc; Taelman, Ruben; Third, Aisling; Tiddi, Ilaria; Türker, RimaTextual documents are the means of sharing information and preserving knowledge for a large variety of domains. The patent domain is also using such a paradigm which is becoming difficult to maintain and is limiting the potentialities of using advanced AI systems for domain analysis. To overcome this issue, it is more and more frequent to find approaches to transform textual representations into Knowledge Graphs (KGs). In this position paper, we discuss KGs within the patent domain, present its challenges, and envision the benefits of such technologies for this domain. In addition, this paper provides insights of such KGs by reproducing an existing pipeline to create KGs and applying it to patents in the computer science domain.
- ItemExploring the Impact of Negative Sampling on Patent Citation Recommendation(Paris : CNRS, 2023) Dessi, Rima; Aras, Hidir; Alam, MehwishDue to the increasing number of patents being published every day, patent citation recommendations have become one of the challenging tasks. Since patent citations may lead to legal and economic consequences, patent recommendations are even more challenging as compared to scientific article citations. One of the crucial components of the patent citation algorithm is negative sampling which is also a part of many other tasks such as text classification, knowledge graph completion, etc. This paper, particularly focuses on proposing a transformer-based ranking model for patent recommendations. It further experimentally compares the performance of patent recommendations based on various state-of-the-art negative sampling approaches to measure and compare the effectiveness of these approaches to aid future developments. These experiments are performed on a newly collected dataset of US patents from Google patents.
- ItemTowards Analyzing the Bias of News Recommender Systems Using Sentiment and Stance Detection(New York,NY,United States : Association for Computing Machinery, 2022) Alam, Mehwish; Iana, Andreea; Grote, Alexander; Ludwig, Katharina; Müller, Philipp; Paulheim, Heiko; Laforest, Frédérique; Troncy, Raphael; Médini, Lionel; Herman, IvanNews recommender systems are used by online news providers to alleviate information overload and to provide personalized content to users. However, algorithmic news curation has been hypothesized to create filter bubbles and to intensify users' selective exposure, potentially increasing their vulnerability to polarized opinions and fake news. In this paper, we show how information on news items' stance and sentiment can be utilized to analyze and quantify the extent to which recommender systems suffer from biases. To that end, we have annotated a German news corpus on the topic of migration using stance detection and sentiment analysis. In an experimental evaluation with four different recommender systems, our results show a slight tendency of all four models for recommending articles with negative sentiments and stances against the topic of refugees and migration. Moreover, we observed a positive correlation between the sentiment and stance bias of the text-based recommenders and the preexisting user bias, which indicates that these systems amplify users' opinions and decrease the diversity of recommended news. The knowledge-aware model appears to be the least prone to such biases, at the cost of predictive accuracy.