Gender-based violence (GBV) is an ongoing public health issue. Prevention practice and research on GBV contend with an incomplete understanding of its public health burden due to gender-exclusive definitions of GBV and inhibited survivor disclosure. ...

Discussion forums are one of the favored platforms for knowledge sharing. Given their popularity, copious research exists on understanding linguistic and behavioral characteristics of forum conversations. However, prior investigations have mainly ...

Border Theory suggests individuals createborders to manage the transitions between work and family (or, more generally, life) domains. The degree of separation or integration of domains across borders has an impact on the balance between work and life. ...

Nowadays the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies into human life is at the peak of its history, including natural language processing (NLP). Consequently, it is becoming more necessary than ever to find new effective solutions for data ...

Brief historical background on the establishment and activities of the Institute of Control Sciences (IPU RAS). The paper presents key findings of the Institute (obtained mainly in the 20th century) in the field of pattern recognition and of ...

Modern robots can perform a wide range of tasks when working together with a person. During collaboration, the robot can receive commands from a person through various control systems, as well as through natural language. Utterances in natural ...

Depression is a type of mental illness that negatively impacts the lives of millions of people worldwide. Extreme depression is related to increasingly hopeless and worthless feelings, which may lead to suicidal attempts. The widespread use of social ...

Existing research targeting disability on social media has looked primarily at the English language across the Global North. This has caused significant data gaps in the understanding of disability awareness and cultural mindsets elsewhere. This work ...

The rise of social media has offered a fast and easy way for the propagation of conspiracy theories and other types of disinformation. Despite the research attention that has received, fake news detection remains an open problem and users keep sharing ...

User forums of Open Source Software (OSS) enable end-users to collaboratively discuss problems concerning the OSS applications. Despite decades of research on OSS, we know very little about how end-users engage with OSS communities on these forums, in ...

A combined approach has been developed to estimate the effectiveness of social transformations as a measure of inconsistency between the actions of the authorities and the expectations of society and the synergy (social activity) of people, based ...

Airbnb is one of the most successful examples of sharing economy marketplaces. With rapid and global market penetration, understanding its attractiveness and evolving growth opportunities is key to plan business decision making. There is an ongoing ...

Depression is the most common mental illness in the U.S., with 6.7% of all adults who have experienced a major depressive episode. Unfortunately, depression extends to teens and young users as well, and researchers observed an increasing rate in the ...

We develop a social network based model of user-generated content (social support) in online health communities. Grounded in the social presence and the social network theories, we hypothesize the differential impacts of an online health community ...

Marketing practices have adopted the use of computational approaches in order to optimize the performance of their promotional emails and site advertisements. In the case of promotional emails, subject lines have been found to offer a reliable signal of ...

Online freelancing marketplaces have grown quickly in recent years. In theory, these sites offer workers the ability to earn money without the obligations and potential social biases associated with traditional employment frameworks. In this paper, we ...

Based on State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2014 225 speeches delivered by 42 presidents, this paper describes and evaluates different text representation strategies. To determine the most important words of a given text, the term frequencies tf ...

Crowdfunding sites with recent explosive growth are equally attractive platforms for swindlers or scammers. Though the growing number of articles on crowdfunding scams indicate that the fraud threats are accelerating, there has been little knowledge on ...

This paper introduces a project to develop a reliable, cost-effective method for classifying Internet texts into register categories, and apply that approach to the analysis of a large corpus of web documents. To date, the project has proceeded in 2 key ...

In online communities, satisfied members are essential to community success, since they are more likely to contribute and consume content, engage with other members, and feel committed to the community. However, it is difficult for community leaders to ...