Ugur Kursuncu

44 papers A* 1A 2B 3Journal 26Unranked 12
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Echoes of Human Malice in Agents: Benchmarking LLMs for Multi-Turn Online Harassment Attacks.
CoRR
Trilok Padhi, Pinxian Lu, Abdulkadir Erol, Tanmay Sutar, Gauri Sharma, Mina Sonmez, Munmun De Choudhury, Ugur Kursuncu
2025 J jnl
From Reddit to Generative AI: Evaluating Large Language Models for Anxiety Support Fine-tuned on Social Media Data.
CoRR
Ugur Kursuncu, Trilok Padhi, Gaurav Sinha, Abdulkadir Erol, Jaya Krishna Mandivarapu, Christopher R. Larrison
2025 — conf
Just KIDDIN' : Knowledge Infusion and Distillation for Detection of INdecent Memes.
ACL (Findings)
Rahul Garg, Trilok Padhi, Hemang Jain, Ugur Kursuncu, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
2025 J jnl
Large Language Models for Cancer Communication: Evaluating Linguistic Quality, Safety, and Accessibility in Generative AI.
CoRR
Agnik Saha, Victoria Churchill, Anny D. Rodriguez, Ugur Kursuncu, Muhammed Y. Idris
2025 J jnl
Playing Devil's Advocate: Unmasking Toxicity and Vulnerabilities in Large Vision-Language Models.
CoRR
Abdulkadir Erol, Trilok Padhi, Agnik Saha, Ugur Kursuncu, Mehmet Emin Aktas
2025 A conf
Telegram as a Battlefield: Kremlin-Related Communications During the Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
ICWSM
Apaar Bawa, Ugur Kursuncu, Dilshod Achilov, Valerie L. Shalin, Nitin Agarwal, Esra Akbas
2025 J jnl
Telegram as a Battlefield: Kremlin-related Communications during the Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
CoRR
Apaar Bawa, Ugur Kursuncu, Dilshod Achilov, Valerie L. Shalin, Nitin Agarwal, Esra Akbas
2024 B conf
A Domain-Agnostic Neurosymbolic Approach for Big Social Data Analysis: Evaluating Mental Health Sentiment on Social Media during COVID-19.
IEEE Big Data
Vedant Khandelwal, Manas Gaur, Ugur Kursuncu, Valerie L. Shalin, Amit P. Sheth
2024 J jnl
A Domain-Agnostic Neurosymbolic Approach for Big Social Data Analysis: Evaluating Mental Health Sentiment on Social Media during COVID-19.
CoRR
Vedant Khandelwal, Manas Gaur, Ugur Kursuncu, Valerie L. Shalin, Amit P. Sheth
2024 J jnl
Computational approaches for cyber social threats.
EPJ Data Sci.
Francesco Pierri, Matthew R. DeVerna, Kai-Cheng Yang, Jeremy Blackburn, Ugur Kursuncu
2024 B conf
Enhancing Cross-Modal Contextual Congruence for Crowdfunding Success using Knowledge-infused Learning.
IEEE Big Data
Trilok Padhi, Ugur Kursuncu, Yaman Kumar, Valerie L. Shalin, Lane Peterson Fronczek
2024 J jnl
Fairness in Computational Innovations: Identifying Bias in Substance Use Treatment Length of Stay Prediction Models with Policy Implications.
CoRR
Ugur Kursuncu, Aaron Baird, Yusen Xia
2024 J jnl
Improving Contextual Congruence Across Modalities for Effective Multimodal Marketing using Knowledge-infused Learning.
CoRR
Trilok Padhi, Ugur Kursuncu, Yaman Kumar, Valerie L. Shalin, Lane Peterson Fronczek
2024 J jnl
Just KIDDIN: Knowledge Infusion and Distillation for Detection of INdecent Memes.
CoRR
Rahul Garg, Trilok Padhi, Hemang Jain, Ugur Kursuncu, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
2024 J jnl
The Adaptive Strategies of Anti-Kremlin Digital Dissent in Telegram during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.
CoRR
Apaar Bawa, Ugur Kursuncu, Dilshod Achilov, Valerie L. Shalin
2023 — conf
CySoc 2023: 4th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats.
WWW (Companion Volume)
Ugur Kursuncu, Kai-Cheng Yang, Francesco Pierri, Matthew R. DeVerna, Yelena Mejova, Jeremy Blackburn
2022 J jnl
Defining and detecting toxicity on social media: context and knowledge are key.
Neurocomputing
Amit P. Sheth, Valerie L. Shalin, Ugur Kursuncu
2021 J jnl
Characterization of Time-variant and Time-invariant Assessment of Suicidality on Reddit using C-SSRS.
CoRR
Manas Gaur, Vamsi Aribandi, Amanuel Alambo, Ugur Kursuncu, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Jonanthan Beich, Jyotishman Pathak, Amit P. Sheth
2021 — conf
Cyber Social Threats 2021: AI, Covid-19 Vaccine, Detection and Countering Strategies.
ICWSM Workshops
Ugur Kursuncu, Jeremy Blackburn, Yelena Mejova, Megan Squire, Amit P. Sheth
2021 J jnl
Defining and Detecting Toxicity on Social Media: Context and Knowledge are Key.
CoRR
Amit P. Sheth, Valerie L. Shalin, Ugur Kursuncu
2021 — conf
Knowledge-Driven Drug-Use NamedEntity Recognition with Distant Supervision.
MedInfo
Goonmeet Bajaj, Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Usha Lokala, Ayaz Hyder, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Amit P. Sheth
2021 J jnl
When the Bad Is Good and the Good Is Bad: Understanding Cyber Social Health Through Online Behavioral Change.
IEEE Internet Comput.
Ugur Kursuncu, Hemant Purohit, Nitin Agarwal, Amit P. Sheth
2021 J jnl
When the Bad is Good and the Good is Bad: Understanding Cyber Social Health Through Online Behavioral Change.
IEEE Internet Comput.
Ugur Kursuncu, Hemant Purohit, Nitin Agarwal, Amit P. Sheth
2020 J jnl
A hybrid data mining approach for identifying the temporal effects of variables associated with breast cancer survival.
Expert Syst. Appl.
Serhat Simsek, Ugur Kursuncu, Eyyüb Y. Kibis, Musheera AnisAbdellatif, Ali Dag
2020 — conf
ALONE: A Dataset for Toxic Behavior Among Adolescents on Twitter.
SocInfo
Thilini Wijesiriwardene, Hale Inan, Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Valerie L. Shalin, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amit P. Sheth, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar
2020 J jnl
ALONE: A Dataset for Toxic Behavior among Adolescents on Twitter.
CoRR
Thilini Wijesiriwardene, Hale Inan, Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Valerie L. Shalin, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amit P. Sheth, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar
2020 — conf
Cyber Social Threats 2020 Workshop Meta-report: COVID-19, Challenges, Methodological and Ethical Considerations.
ICWSM Workshops
Ugur Kursuncu, Yelena Mejova, Jeremy Blackburn, Amit P. Sheth
2020 — conf
Knowledge Infused Learning (K-IL): Towards Deep Incorporation of Knowledge in Deep Learning.
AAAI Spring Symposium: Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge Engineering (1)
Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Amit P. Sheth
2020 — conf
Knowledge-infused Deep Learning.
HT
Manas Gaur, Ugur Kursuncu, Amit P. Sheth, Ruwan Wickramarachchi, Shweta Yadav
2020 J jnl
Reports of the Workshops Held at the 2020 International Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and Social Media.
AI Mag.
Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Jisun An, Marya Bazzi, Jeremy Blackburn, Ugur Kursuncu, Yelena Mejova, Jérémie Rappaz, Horacio Saggion, Panayiotis Smeros, Sanjaya Wijeratne, Ning Yu
2019 J jnl
Knowledge Infused Learning (K-IL): Towards Deep Incorporation of Knowledge in Deep Learning.
CoRR
Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Amit P. Sheth
2019 A* conf
Knowledge-aware Assessment of Severity of Suicide Risk for Early Intervention.
WWW
Manas Gaur, Amanuel Alambo, Joy Prakash Sain, Ugur Kursuncu, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Ramakanth Kavuluru, Amit P. Sheth, Randy S. Welton, Jyotishman Pathak
2019 J jnl
Modeling Islamist Extremist Communications on Social Media using Contextual Dimensions: Religion, Ideology, and Hate.
CoRR
Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Carlos Castillo, Amanuel Alambo, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Valerie L. Shalin, Dilshod Achilov, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth
2019 J jnl
Modeling Islamist Extremist Communications on Social Media using Contextual Dimensions: Religion, Ideology, and Hate.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Carlos Castillo, Amanuel Alambo, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Valerie L. Shalin, Dilshod Achilov, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth
2019 — conf
Question Answering for Suicide Risk Assessment Using Reddit.
ICSC
Amanuel Alambo, Manas Gaur, Usha Lokala, Ugur Kursuncu, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amelie Gyrard, Amit P. Sheth, Randon S. Welton, Jyotishman Pathak
2019 J jnl
Shades of Knowledge-Infused Learning for Enhancing Deep Learning.
IEEE Internet Comput.
Amit P. Sheth, Manas Gaur, Ugur Kursuncu, Ruwan Wickramarachchi
2018 A conf
"Let Me Tell You About Your Mental Health!": Contextualized Classification of Reddit Posts to DSM-5 for Web-based Intervention.
CIKM
Manas Gaur, Ugur Kursuncu, Amanuel Alambo, Amit P. Sheth, Raminta Daniulaityte, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Jyotishman Pathak
2018 J jnl
"What's ur type?" Contextualized Classification of User Types in Marijuana-related Communications using Compositional Multiview Embedding.
CoRR
Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Usha Lokala, Anurag Illendula, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Raminta Daniulaityte, Amit P. Sheth, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar
2018 J jnl
Predictive Analysis on Twitter: Techniques and Applications.
CoRR
Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Usha Lokala, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amit P. Sheth, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar
2018 B conf
What's ur Type? Contextualized Classification of User Types in Marijuana-Related Communications Using Compositional Multiview Embedding.
WI
Ugur Kursuncu, Manas Gaur, Usha Lokala, Anurag Illendula, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Raminta Daniulaityte, Amit P. Sheth, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar
2017 — conf
Real Time Evaluation of Quality of Search Terms During Query Expansion for Streaming Text Data Using Velocity and Relevance.
ICSC
Nilayan Bhattacharya, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Ugur Kursuncu
2016 — conf
Social Media Analytics to Identify and Counter Islamist Extremism: Systematic Detection, Evaluation, and Challenging of Extremist Narratives Online.
CTS
Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Ugur Kursuncu, Dilshod Achilov
2014 — conf
CrowdLink: Crowdsourcing for Large-Scale Linked Data Management.
ICSC
Amna Basharat, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Shima Dastgheib, Ugur Kursuncu, Krys J. Kochut, Erdogan Dogdu
2014 J jnl
Semantically Enriched Task and Workflow Automation in Crowdsourcing for Linked Data Management.
Int. J. Semantic Comput.
Amna Basharat, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Shima Dastgheib, Ugur Kursuncu, Krys J. Kochut, Erdogan Dogdu