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Emilio Ferrara
Researcher at University of Southern California
Publications - 330
Citations - 19782
Emilio Ferrara is an academic researcher from University of Southern California. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 56, co-authored 287 publications receiving 14499 citations. Previous affiliations of Emilio Ferrara include Indiana University & VU University Amsterdam.
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Graph embedding techniques, applications, and performance: A survey
Palash Goyal,Emilio Ferrara +1 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive and structured analysis of various graph embedding techniques proposed in the literature, and the open-source Python library, named GEM (Graph Embedding Methods, available at https://github.com/palash1992/GEM ), which provides all presented algorithms within a unified interface to foster and facilitate research on the topic.
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The rise of social bots
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the threat posed by today's social bots and how their presence can endanger online ecosystems as well as our society, and how to deal with them.
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The Rise of Social Bots
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the characteristics of modern, sophisticated social bots and how their presence can endanger online ecosystems and our society, and review current efforts to detect social bots on Twitter.
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Social bots distort the 2016 U.S. Presidential election online discussion
Alessandro Bessi,Emilio Ferrara +1 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest that the presence of social media bots can indeed negatively affect democratic political discussion rather than improving it, which in turn can potentially alter public opinion and endanger the integrity of the Presidential election.
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BotOrNot: A System to Evaluate Social Bots
TL;DR: BotOrNot as discussed by the authors is a publicly available service that leverages more than one thousand features to evaluate the extent to which a Twitter account exhibits similarity to the known characteristics of social bots.