Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science

JM Hofman, DJ Watts, S Athey, F Garip, TL Griffiths… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Computational social science is more than just large repositories of digital data and the
computational methods needed to construct and analyse them. It also represents a …

A survey on causal inference

L Yao, Z Chu, S Li, Y Li, J Gao, A Zhang - ACM Transactions on …, 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
Causal inference is a critical research topic across many domains, such as statistics,
computer science, education, public policy, and economics, for decades. Nowadays …

[PDF][PDF] Can large language models transform computational social science?

C Ziems, W Held, O Shaikh, J Chen, Z Zhang… - Computational …, 2024‏ - direct.mit.edu
Large language models (LLMs) are capable of successfully performing many language
processing tasks zero-shot (without training data). If zero-shot LLMs can also reliably classify …

Is a picture worth a thousand words? An empirical study of image content and social media engagement

Y Li, Y **e - Journal of marketing research, 2020‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Are social media posts with pictures more popular than those without? Why do pictures with
certain characteristics induce higher engagement than some other pictures? Using data sets …

Human decisions and machine predictions

J Kleinberg, H Lakkaraju, J Leskovec… - The quarterly journal …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Can machine learning improve human decision making? Bail decisions provide a good test
case. Millions of times each year, judges make jail-or-release decisions that hinge on a …

A survey of information cascade analysis: Models, predictions, and recent advances

F Zhou, X Xu, G Trajcevski, K Zhang - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
The deluge of digital information in our daily life—from user-generated content, such as
microblogs and scientific papers, to online business, such as viral marketing and advertising …

Creative writing with a machine in the loop: Case studies on slogans and stories

E Clark, AS Ross, C Tan, Y Ji, NA Smith - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2018‏ - dl.acm.org
As the quality of natural language generated by artificial intelligence systems improves,
writing interfaces can support interventions beyond grammar-checking and spell-checking …

Deepcas: An end-to-end predictor of information cascades

C Li, J Ma, X Guo, Q Mei - … of the 26th international conference on World …, 2017‏ - dl.acm.org
Information cascades, effectively facilitated by most social network platforms, are recognized
as a major factor in almost every social success and disaster in these networks. Can …

CausaLM: Causal model explanation through counterfactual language models

A Feder, N Oved, U Shalit, R Reichart - Computational Linguistics, 2021‏ - direct.mit.edu
Understanding predictions made by deep neural networks is notoriously difficult, but also
crucial to their dissemination. As all machine learning–based methods, they are as good as …

Winning arguments: Interaction dynamics and persuasion strategies in good-faith online discussions

C Tan, V Niculae, C Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2016‏ - dl.acm.org
Changing someone's opinion is arguably one of the most important challenges of social
interaction. The underlying process proves difficult to study: it is hard to know how …