News

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  • Presentation about Populism Detection at the Workshop: Österreichisches Treffen zu Sentimentinferenz

    📢 Exciting update from the 47th Austrian Linguistic Conference in Graz! Our lab member Ahmadou Wagne showcased his research on annotating Austrian news comments for populist motives and utilizing machine learning to automatically detect them. Huge thanks to hosts Julia Neidhardt and Andreas Baumann for organizing the workshop: “Österreichisches Treffen zu Sentimentinferenz”! 👏🔍

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  • TU Wien Informatics Awards 2023

    🎉Today the first edition of the newly created TU Wien Informatics Awards ceremony took place to celebrate excellent students at the faculty. We are excited to share that our lab member Ahmadou Wagne was nominated for the Best Master Thesis Award. His thesis “COVID-19 and populism in Austrian news user comments – A machine learning…

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  • Classification of users in an online news forum

    Author: Felix Scholz Supervisor: Hannes Werthner, Co-Supervisor: Julia Neidhardt Abstract Online news forums provide a longstanding way for the exchange of opinions with other users. These often-large user bases consist of a cross-section of all people with various opinions and motivations. By classifying recurring types of behaviors common in such a context, an effort is…

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