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Béatrice Mazoyer

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arXiv2026

Mapping the political landscape from data traces: multidimensional opinions of users, politicians and media outlets on X

Studying political activity on social media often requires defining and measuring political stances of users or content. Relevant examples include the study of opinion polarization, or the study of political diversity in online content diets. While many research designs rely on operationalizations best suited for the US setting, few allow addressing more general political systems, in which users and media outlets might exhibit stances on multiple ideology and issue dimensions, going beyond traditional Liberal-Conservative or Left-Right scales. To advance the study of more general online ecosystems, we present a dataset pertaining to a population of X/Twitter users, parliamentarians, and media outlets embedded in a political space spanned by dimensions measuring attitudes towards immigration, the EU, liberal values, elites and institutions, nationalism and the environment, in addition to left-right and liberal-conservative scales. We include indicators of individual activity and popularity: mean number of posts per day, number of followers, and number of followees. We provide several benchmarks validating the positions of these entities and discuss several applications for this dataset.

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arXiv2024

An Incremental Clustering Baseline for Event Detection on Twitter

Event detection in text streams is a crucial task for the analysis of online media and social networks. One of the current challenges in this field is establishing a performance standard while maintaining an acceptable level of computational complexity. In our study, we use an incremental clustering algorithm combined with recent advancements in sentence embeddings. Our objective is to compare our findings with previous studies, specifically those by Cao et al. (2024) and Mazoyer et al. (2020). Our results demonstrate significant improvements and could serve as a relevant baseline for future research in this area.

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arXiv2020

Représentations lexicales pour la détection non supervisée d'événements dans un flux de tweets : étude sur des corpus français et anglais

In this work, we evaluate the performance of recent text embeddings for the automatic detection of events in a stream of tweets. We model this task as a dynamic clustering problem.Our experiments are conducted on a publicly available corpus of tweets in English and on a similar dataset in French annotated by our team. We show that recent techniques based on deep neural networks (ELMo, Universal Sentence Encoder, BERT, SBERT), although promising on many applications, are not very suitable for this task. We also experiment with different types of fine-tuning to improve these results on French data. Finally, we propose a detailed analysis of the results obtained, showing the superiority of tf-idf approaches for this task.

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