Statistical methods have been widely employed in many practical natural language
processing applications. More specifically, complex network concepts and methods from …

Using mobile phone records and information theory measures, our daily lives have been
recently shown to follow strict statistical regularities, and our movement patterns are, to a …

We investigate how textual properties of scientific papers relate to the number of citations
they receive. Our main finding is that correlations are nonlinear and affect differently the …

Complex structure of human language enables us to exchange very complicated
information. This communication system obeys some common nonlinear statistical …

We show that activity of online news outlets follows a temporal fluctuation scaling law and
we recover this feature using an independent cascade model augmented with a varying …

High frequency psychophysiological data create a challenge for quantitative modeling
based on Big Data tools since they reflect the complexity of processes taking place in human …

Online communication takes a variety of shapes in the different technological media that
allow users interact with each other, with their friends, or with arbitrarily large groups. These …

This chapter analyzes patterns in messages posted to several Internet discussion forums
from the perspective of the sentiment expressed in them and the collective character of …

Basing upon emotionally annotated data from four different media (a set of blogs, BBC
Forums, Digg portal and IRC channels) we demonstrate the collective character of affective …

Conversation is an essential component of social behavior, one of the primary means by
which humans express emotions, moods, attitudes, and personality. Conversation is also …