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COVID-19 and Populism in Austrian News User Comments – A Machine Learning Approach
Author: Ahmadou Wagne Supervisor: Julia Neidhardt, Co-Supervisor: Thomas E. Kolb Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting government measures have triggered a wave of protests and demonstrations in Austria. We saw some protestors resorting to populist rhetoric to express their dissatisfaction, which in some cases, led to anti-democratic tendencies. Populist talking points have not been…
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Unlocking the Potential of Content-Based Restaurant Recommender Systems: Insights from ENTER Conference 2024
Today, Thomas E. Kolb, had the pleasure of presenting our work, “Unlocking the Potential of Content-Based Restaurant Recommender Systems” at the ENTER Konferenze 2024, in Izmir, Turkey. 📚 Our research focuses on optimizing dining experiences by examining the effectiveness of TF-IDF and SBERT models. This study not only assesses these models on a technical level…
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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”! 👏🔍