Situational Awareness for Social Media: Theories, Models and Algorithms

Abstract

The goal of this project is to develop technological capabilities for monitoring social media platforms to detect propaganda campaigns and influence operations and predict their effect. The intended outcome of this research will be set of automated and semiautomated tools to monitor emergence of topics and memes, predict their spread, detect attempts to propagate rumors and misinformation, recognize participant activities and intent, and detect covert attempts to manipulate public opinion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 31, 2016
Accession Number
AD1058315

Entities

People

  • Aram Galstyan
  • Eduard Hovy
  • Kristina Lerman
  • Ramakant Nevatia
  • Yan Y Liu

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Science
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Information Operations
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Network Science
  • Online Communications
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Probability
  • Social Computing
  • Social Media
  • Social Networking Services
  • Social Networks
  • Supervised Machine Learning

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