论文标题
在Twitter中发现政治社会机器人：2019年西班牙大选的用例
Spotting political social bots in Twitter: A use case of the 2019 Spanish general election
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论文摘要
尽管社交媒体已被证明是与其他人进行互动，并迅速传播有用信息的一种非常有用的工具，但其巨大潜力也无意义地利用了扭曲政治选举和操纵选民的损害。在手头的论文中，我们在2019年11月西班牙大选的背景下分析了社会机器人在Twitter上的存在和行为。在我们的整个研究中，我们将用户归类为社交机器人或人类，并从定量（即产生的交通量和现有关系）以及定性（即用户对最重要政党的政治亲和力和情感）的观点来研究他们的互动。结果表明，这些机器人积极参与选举，支持五个主要政党中的每一个。
While social media has been proved as an exceptionally useful tool to interact with other people and massively and quickly spread helpful information, its great potential has been ill-intentionally leveraged as well to distort political elections and manipulate constituents. In the paper at hand, we analyzed the presence and behavior of social bots on Twitter in the context of the November 2019 Spanish general election. Throughout our study, we classified involved users as social bots or humans, and examined their interactions from a quantitative (i.e., amount of traffic generated and existing relations) and qualitative (i.e., user's political affinity and sentiment towards the most important parties) perspectives. Results demonstrated that a non-negligible amount of those bots actively participated in the election, supporting each of the five principal political parties.
