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5. Semi-Supervised Causal Inference for Identifying Pathogenic Social Media Accounts

verfasst von : Hamidreza Alvari, Elham Shaabani, Paulo Shakarian

Erschienen in: Identification of Pathogenic Social Media Accounts

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The lack of sufficient labeled examples for devising and training sophisticated approaches to combat PSM accounts is still one of the foremost challenges facing social media firms. In contrast, unlabeled data is abundant and cheap to obtain thanks to the massive user-generated data produced on a daily basis. This chapter proposes a semi-supervised causal inference PSM detection framework, SemiPsm, to compensate for the lack of labeled data for identifying PSM users. The proposed method leverages unlabeled data in the form of manifold regularization and only relies on cascade information from users’ activities. This is in contrast to the existing approaches that use exhaustive feature engineering (e.g., profile information, network structure, etc.). Evidence from empirical experiments on the ISIS-B dataset from previous chapters suggests promising results of utilizing unlabeled instances for detecting PSMs.

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Metadaten
Titel
Semi-Supervised Causal Inference for Identifying Pathogenic Social Media Accounts
verfasst von
Hamidreza Alvari
Elham Shaabani
Paulo Shakarian
Copyright-Jahr
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61431-7_5

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