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# TWSDetection
Machine Learning for Trend and Weak Signal Detection in Social Networks and Social Media

### Proceedings of the Workshop on Machine Learning for Trend and Weak Signal Detection in Social Networks and Social Media 2020

### Toulouse, France, February 27-28, 2020.

Edited by

### Josiane Mothe *
Thi Bich Ngoc Hoang *

* Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, UMR5505 CNRS, Université de Toulouse, France

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Session 1: Risk and Trend Detection

- Targeting Societal Challenges by analysing social media data (abstract) 1-2
  Miriam Fernandez
- What's in the News? Identification of Trending Topics in Alternative and Mainstream Lithuanian Media 3-17
  Justina Mandravickaitė, Monika Briedienė, Jonas Uus, Tomas Krilavičius
- Topical Community Detection: an Embedding User and Content Similarity Method (short paper) 18-24
  Thi Bich Ngoc Hoang
- Prediction and Visual Intelligence Platform for Detection of Irregularities and Abnormal Behaviour (short paper) 25-30
  Konstantinos Demestichas, Theodoros Alexakis, Nikolaos Peppes, Konstantina Re-moundou, Ioannis Loumiotis, Wilmuth Müller, Konstantinos Avgerinakis

### Session 2: Detection of aggressive content

- Deep learning with weakly-annotated data: a sound event detection use case (and hate speech detection here and there) (abstract) 31-32
  Thomas Pellegrini
- The Role of Storylines in Hate Speech Detection (short paper) 33-39
  Kurt Englmeier
- Aggression Identification in Posts - two machine learning approache 40-49
  Faneva Ramiandrisoa
- Hatemeter Project: Analysis of hate speech on twitter at the crossroads of computer science, humanities and social sciences (short paper) 50-55
  Mario Laurent

### Session 3: Fake news detection

- An ML Model for Predicting Information Check-Worthiness using a Variety of Features (short paper) 56-61
  Md Zia Ullah
- Detecting fake news in social media content (abstract) 62-63
  Charles Huot, Sonia Collada

### Session 4: Another Session

- Ethical and legal challenges of machine learning for trend and weak signal detection in social networks: an overview (abstract) 64-65
  Zuzanna Warso
- Intelligence analysis and semantic interoperability for identity resolution (abstract) 66-67
  Kostas Davarakis, Eva Blomqvist

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