``Who Mentions Whom?''- Understanding the Psycho-Sociological Aspects of Twitter Mention Network

``A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'' -- Understanding the psycho-sociological influences to it

Perspectives on How Sociology Can Advance Theorizing about Human-Chatbot Interaction and Developing Chatbots for Social Good

Recently, research into chatbots (also known as conversational agents, AI agents, voice assistants), which are computer applications using artificial intelligence to mimic human-like conversation, has grown sharply. Desp…

Predicting Opinion Dynamics via Sociologically-Informed Neural Networks

Opinion formation and propagation are crucial phenomena in social networks and have been extensively studied across several disciplines. Traditionally, theoretical models of opinion dynamics have been proposed to describ…

Structural Characterization for Dialogue Disentanglement

Tangled multi-party dialogue contexts lead to challenges for dialogue reading comprehension, where multiple dialogue threads flow simultaneously within a common dialogue record, increasing difficulties in understanding t…

With Whom Do I Interact? Detecting Social Interactions in Egocentric Photo-streams

Given a user wearing a low frame rate wearable camera during a day, this work aims to automatically detect the moments when the user gets engaged into a social interaction solely by reviewing the automatically captured p…