Publications

2025

  1. (To appear) Framing the Fray: Evaluating Conflict and Game Frames in Indian Election News Coverage
    Tejasvi Chebrolu, Rohan Chowdary, N Harsha Vardhan, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Web Science Conference, 2025
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  2. (To appear) Personal Narratives Empower Politically Disinclined Individuals to Engage in Political Discussions
    Tejasvi Chebrolu, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, and Ashwin Rajadesingan
    In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Web Science Conference, 2025
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2024

  1. Promoting Constructive Deliberation: Reframing for Receptiveness
    Gauri Kambhatla, Matthew Lease, and Ashwin Rajadesingan
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024
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2023

  1. GuesSync!: an online casual game to reduce affective polarization
    Ashwin Rajadesingan, Daniel Choo, Jessica Zhang, and 3 more authors
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2023
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2021

  1. Political discussion is abundant in non-political subreddits (and less toxic)
    Ashwin Rajadesingan, Ceren Budak, and Paul Resnick
    In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021
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  2. ’Walking Into a Fire Hoping You Don’t Catch’: Strategies and Designs to Facilitate Cross-Partisan Online Discussions
    Ashwin Rajadesingan, Carolyn Duran, Paul Resnick, and 1 more author
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2021
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2020

  1. Leader or party? Personalization in twitter political campaigns during the 2019 Indian Elections
    Ashwin Rajadesingan, Anmol Panda, and Joyojeet Pal
    In International conference on social media and society, 2020
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  2. Quick, community-specific learning: How distinctive toxicity norms are maintained in political subreddits
    Ashwin Rajadesingan, Paul Resnick, and Ceren Budak
    In Proceedings of the international AAAI conference on web and social media, 2020
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2019

  1. Smart, responsible, and upper caste only: measuring caste attitudes through large-scale analysis of matrimonial profiles
    Ashwin Rajadesingan, Ramaswami Mahalingam, and David Jurgens
    In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2019
    🏅Best paper award🏅 PDF

2015

  1. Sarcasm detection on twitter: A behavioral modeling approach
    Ashwin Rajadesingan, Reza Zafarani, and Huan Liu
    In Proceedings of the eighth ACM international conference on web search and data mining, 2015
    🏅Test of time award🏅 PDF

2014

  1. Identifying users with opposing opinions in Twitter debates
    Ashwin Rajadesingan, and Huan Liu
    In Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction: 7th International Conference, SBP 2014, Washington, DC, USA, April 1-4, 2014. Proceedings 7, 2014
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2012

  1. Comment spam classification in blogs through comment analysis and comment-blog post relationships
    Ashwin Rajadesingan, and Anand Mahendran
    In Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 13th International Conference, CICLing 2012, New Delhi, India, March 11-17, 2012, Proceedings, Part II 13, 2012
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  2. PhishAri: Automatic Realtime Phishing Detection on Twitter
    Anupama Aggarwal, Ashwin Rajadesingan, and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
    Seventh IEEE APWG eCrime researchers summit (eCRS), 2012
    🏅Best paper award🏅 PDF