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ArticleJournal of big data2023

Detecting bots in social-networks using node and structural embeddings.

Ashkan Dehghan, Kinga Siuta, Agata Skorupka, Akshat Dubey, Andrei Betlen, David Miller, Wei Xu, Bogumił Kamiński, Paweł Prałat

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Article in Journal of big data, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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9 authors.

Ashkan DehghanToronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON Canada.
Kinga SiutaToronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON Canada.
Agata SkorupkaToronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON Canada.
Akshat DubeyToronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON Canada.
Andrei BetlenPatagona Technologies, Pickering, ON Canada.
David MillerPatagona Technologies, Pickering, ON Canada.
Wei XuToronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON Canada.
Bogumił KamińskiSGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland.
Paweł PrałatToronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Users on social networks such as Twitter interact with each other without much knowledge of the real-identity behind the accounts they interact with. This anonymity has created a perfect environment for bot accounts to influence the network by mimicking real-user behaviour. Although not all bot accounts have malicious intent, identifying bot accounts in general is an important and difficult task. In the literature there are three distinct types of feature sets one could use for building machine learning models for classifying bot accounts. These feature-sets are: user profile metadata, natural language features (

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Detecting botsNode and structural embeddingsSocial networks

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PMID37483882
PMCPMC10356665

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