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Fabrício Benevenuto is affiliated with Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil and has a significant research output in the fields of Computer Science and Social Sciences. Their work intersects various subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Communication, and Signal Processing.

Their research focuses primarily on topics such as misinformation and its impacts, spam and phishing detection, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, social media and politics, sentiment analysis and opinion mining, internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting, and digital marketing and social media.

Fabrício Benevenuto has contributed to multiple publications, including:

  • Analyzing the Targets of Hate in Online Social Media (2021), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • The Many Shades of Anonymity: Characterizing Anonymous Social Media Content (2021), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Tackling misinformation: What researchers could do with social media data (2020), Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
  • A Dataset of Fact-Checked Images Shared on WhatsApp During the Brazilian and Indian Elections (2020), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • iFeel 2.0: A Multilingual Benchmarking System for Sentence-Level Sentiment Analysis (2021), Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Frequent co-authors with whom Fabrício Benevenuto has collaborated include:

  • Júlio C. S. Reis
  • Philipe Melo
  • Jussara M. Almeida
  • Francielle Vargas
  • Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo

In terms of publication venues, Fabrício Benevenuto has contributed extensively to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Social Network Analysis and Mining
  • Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review

Best Publications

  • Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy

    Meeyoung Cha;Hamed Haddadi;Fabr´ıcio Benevenuto;Krishna P. Gummadi

  • Characterizing user behavior in online social networks

    Fabrício Benevenuto;Tiago Rodrigues;Meeyoung Cha;Virgílio Almeida

  • Comparing and combining sentiment analysis methods

    Pollyanna Gonçalves;Matheus Araújo;Fabrício Benevenuto;Meeyoung Cha

  • SentiBench - a benchmark comparison of state-of-the-practice sentiment analysis methods

    Filipe N Ribeiro;Filipe N Ribeiro;Matheus Araújo;Pollyanna Gonçalves;Marcos André Gonçalves

  • Understanding and combating link farming in the twitter social network

    Saptarshi Ghosh;Bimal Viswanath;Farshad Kooti;Naveen Kumar Sharma

  • Supervised Learning for Fake News Detection

    Julio C. S. Reis;Andre Correia;Fabricio Murai;Adriano Veloso

  • A Measurement Study of Hate Speech in Social Media

    Mainack Mondal;Leandro Araújo Silva;Fabrício Benevenuto

  • The tube over time: characterizing popularity growth of youtube videos

    Flavio Figueiredo;Fabrício Benevenuto;Jussara M. Almeida

  • Analyzing the Targets of Hate in Online Social Media

    Leandro Araújo Silva;Mainack Mondal;Denzil Correa;Fabrício Benevenuto

  • Dengue surveillance based on a computational model of spatio-temporal locality of Twitter

    Janaína Gomide;Adriano Veloso;Wagner Meira;Virgílio Almeida

  • Detecting spammers and content promoters in online video social networks

    Fabrício Benevenuto;Tiago Rodrigues;Virgílio Almeida;Jussara Almeida

  • Cognos: crowdsourcing search for topic experts in microblogs

    Saptarshi Ghosh;Naveen Sharma;Fabricio Benevenuto;Niloy Ganguly

  • (Mis)Information Dissemination in WhatsApp: Gathering, Analyzing and Countermeasures

    Gustavo Resende;Philipe Melo;Hugo Sousa;Johnnatan Messias

  • The World of Connections and Information Flow in Twitter

    Meeyoung Cha;F. Benevenuto;H. Haddadi;K. Gummadi

  • Phi.sh/$oCiaL: the phishing landscape through short URLs

    Sidharth Chhabra;Anupama Aggarwal;Fabricio Benevenuto;Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

  • Analyzing the Dynamic Evolution of Hashtags on Twitter: a Language-Based Approach

    Evandro Cunha;Gabriel Magno;Giovanni Comarela;Virgilio Almeida

  • Reverse Engineering Socialbot Infiltration Strategies in Twitter

    Carlos Freitas;Fabricio Benevenuto;Saptarshi Ghosh;Adriano Veloso

  • On word-of-mouth based discovery of the web

    Tiago Rodrigues;Fabrício Benevenuto;Meeyoung Cha;Krishna Gummadi

  • Characterizing user navigation and interactions in online social networks

    Fabrício Benevenuto;Tiago Rodrigues;Meeyoung Cha;Virgílio Almeida

  • You followed my bot! Transforming robots into influential users in Twitter

    Johnnatan Messias;Lucas Schmidt;Ricardo Augusto Rabelo de Oliveira;Fabrício Rodrigues Benevenuto

  • Detecting Spammers and Content Promoters in Online Video Social Networks

    Fabricio Benevenuto;Tiago Rodrigues;Jussara Almeida;Marcos Goncalves

  • A Benchmark Comparison of State-of-the-Practice Sentiment Analysis Methods.

    Filipe Nunes Ribeiro;Matheus Araújo;Pollyanna Gonçalves;Fabrício Benevenuto

Frequent Co-Authors

Jussara M. Almeida
Jussara M. Almeida Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Virgilio Almeida
Virgilio Almeida Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Marcos André Gonçalves
Marcos André Gonçalves Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Krishna P. Gummadi
Krishna P. Gummadi Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Meeyoung Cha
Meeyoung Cha Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Saptarshi Ghosh
Saptarshi Ghosh Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Adriano Veloso
Adriano Veloso Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Alberto H. F. Laender
Alberto H. F. Laender Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Niloy Ganguly
Niloy Ganguly Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Keith W. Ross
Keith W. Ross New York University

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