Publications related to Message Distortion in Information Cascades

Examining European Press Coverage of the Covid-19 No-Vax Movement: An NLP Framework

This paper examines how the European press dealt with the no-vax reactions against the Covid-19 vaccine and the dis- and misinformation associated with this movement. Using a curated dataset of 1786 articles from 19 European newspapers on the anti-vaccine ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

KNNs of Semantic Encodings for Rating Prediction

Léo Jules Laugier

This paper explores a novel application of textual semantic similarity to user-preference representation for rating prediction. The approach represents a user's preferences as a graph of textual snippets from review text, where the edges are defined by sem ...

IEEE2023

Cognitive twin construction for system of systems operation based on semantic integration and high-level architecture

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Han Li

With the increasing complexity of engineered systems, digital twins (DTs) have been widely used to support integrated modeling, simulation, and decision-making of the system of systems (SoS). However, when integrating DTs of each constituent system, it is ...

IOS PRESS2022

Semantics-Aware Spatial-Temporal Binaries for Cross-Modal Video Retrieval

Jie Luo, Mengshi Qi, Yiyu Wang

With the current exponential growth of video-based social networks, video retrieval using natural language is receiving ever-increasing attention. Most existing approaches tackle this task by extracting individual frame-level spatial features to represent ...

2021

The Vulnerability of Semantic Segmentation Networks to Adversarial Attacks in Autonomous Driving: Enhancing Extensive Environment Sensing

Peter Clemens Schlicht

Enabling autonomous driving (AD) can be considered one of the biggest challenges in today?s technology. AD is a complex task accomplished by several functionalities, with environment perception being one of its core functions. Environment perception is usu ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Semantic Attribute Matching Networks

Seungryong Kim

We present semantic attribute matching networks (SAM-Net) for jointly establishing correspondences and transferring attributes across semantically similar images, which intelligently weaves the advantages of the two tasks while overcoming their limitations ...

IEEE2019

SROBB: Targeted Perceptual Loss for Single Image Super-Resolution

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Mohammad Saeed Rad, Hazim Kemal Ekenel

By benefiting from perceptual losses, recent studies have improved significantly the performance of the super-resolution task, where a high-resolution image is resolved from its low-resolution counterpart. Although such objective functions generate near-ph ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

Unleashing the power of semantic text analysis: a complex systems approach

Andrea Martini

In the present information era, a huge amount of machine-readable data is available regarding scientific publications. Such unprecedented wealth of data offers the opportunity to investigate science itself as a complex interacting system by means of quanti ...

EPFL2018

Simple Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction using Sentence Embeddings

Martin Jaggi, Claudiu-Cristian Musat, Kamil Bennani-Smires

Keyphrase extraction is the task of automatically selecting a small set of phrases that best describe a given free text document. Keyphrases can be used for indexing, searching, aggregating and summarizing text documents, serving many automatic as well as ...

2018

Cities, from Information to Interaction

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

From physics to the social sciences, information is now seen as a fundamental component of reality. However, a form of information seems still underestimated, perhaps precisely because it is so pervasive that we take it for granted: the information encoded ...

2018