Research and Publications
Tenure dossiers are strange documents. They are not quite autobiographies, not quite grant proposals, and not quite research statements. They are arguments about identity. They ask a deceptively simple question: What have you built, and why does it matter? In computational social science, that question can be especially difficult to answer. Our work spills across... Continue Reading →
Helpful hacks for computational social science scholars and the AI for Social Impact track of major AI conferences It's always been important, but now it is increasingly common for computational social science researchers to contextualize their work in the broader application domain that their work is about. Consider this excerpt from ICWSM's call for papers,... Continue Reading →
This study is for American Twitter users with iPhones / Android smartphones. We would like to invite you to participate in an exciting research study about “Experiments with social media use.” If you stay committed to the research study over four weeks AND complete two short surveys, you will earn a $25 Amazon gift card.If... Continue Reading →
Written by Subhayan Mukerjee, Kokil Jaidka, Yphtach Lelkes for Nicolas Berube, La Presse CanadaBased on the findings of our paper, recently accepted in Political Communication Image: LaPresse Canada Were you surprised when you realized that politics isn't the main driver of the US Twitterverse?It’s somewhat reassuring to see that people on Twitter aren’t that different... Continue Reading →
Announcing the SciSumm corpus. The purpose behind the release of this corpus is to highlight the challenges and relevance of the scientific summarization problem, support research in automatic scientific document summarization and provide evaluation resources to push the current state of the art.
A major project I have been working on recently, is the analysis of social media conversations around national elections in Asian societies. This project comprises a series of published studies conducted in Southeast Asia for examing some of the following questions: (a) the topical, functional, and interactional strategies of political parties in their Twitter campaigns... Continue Reading →
Dr. Kokil Jaidka 