Publications

I work in the area of Computational Social Science, with a focus on analysis of big data. Following are my publications in reverse chronological order:

• Poster: Barretto, Z., Sen, A. (2025). Comparative Analysis of Partisan Discourse Among Influencers on X. MisinfoCon 2025 (see at the bottom).

• Poster: Majumdar, S., Sen, A., Sonal, I., Ghel, A., Deb, T., Datta, A., Kulshreshtha, N. (2025). The Role of Fear in Misinformation: A Multidimensional Framework and its Relationship With Sharing and Belief. MisinfoCon 2025 (see at the bottom).

• **Latest: Chen, Y., Chiplunkar, G., Sekhri, S., Sen, A., & Seth, A. (2025). How do political connections of firms matter during an economic crisis?. Journal of Development Economics, 103471.

• Sen, Anirban, Soumyasis, Gun, Soham, De, Joyojeet, Pal. "On the Influence and Political Leaning of Overlap between Propaganda Communities". ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies 2. 2(2024): 1–24.

• Chiplunkar, Gaurav, Sheetal, Sekhri, Yutong, Chen, Anirban, Sen, Aaditeshwar, Seth. "How Do Political Connections of Firms Matter During an Economic Crisis?". Available at SSRN 4731718. (2024).

• Sen, Anirban, Soham, De, Joyojeet, Pal. "Networks and Influencers in Online Propaganda Events: A Comparative Study of Three Cases in India". Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 8. CSCW1(2024): 1–27.

• Sen, Anirban, Debanjan, Ghatak, Gurjeet, Khanuja, Kumari, Rekha, Mehak, Gupta, Sanket, Dhakate, Kartikeya, Sharma, Aaditeshwar, Seth. "Analysis of media bias in policy discourse in india." Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies. 2022.

• Arya, Arshia, Saloni, Dash, Syeda Zainab, Akbar, Joyojeet, Pal, Anirban, Sen. "Poster: Leveraging Question Answering to Understand Context Specific Patterns in Fact Checked Articles in the Global South." Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies. 2022.

• Sen, Anirban. "A computer-based approach to analyze some aspects of the political economy of policy making in India." (2021).

• Pareek, Varun, Rohit, Sharma, Anirban, Sen, Arundeep, Gupta, Manikaran, Kathuria, Aaditeshwar, Seth. "What Drives Location Preference for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Investments in India?." Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies. 2020.

• Sharma, Ankur, Navreet, Kaur, Anirban, Sen, Aaditeshwar, Seth. "Ideology detection in the Indian mass media." 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM). 2020.

• Sen, Anirban, Sandya, Mannarswamy, Manjira, Sinha, Shourya, Roy. "Stance classification of multi-perspective consumer health information." (2020).

• Anirban Sen, Aaditeshwar Seth (IIT. "An Attempt at Using Mass Media Data to Analyze the Political Economy Around Some Key ICTD Policies in India." ICTDX 2019. 2019.

• Sen, Anirban, Manjira, Sinha, Sandya Srivilliputtur, Mannarswamy, Shourya, Roy. "Performing semantic analyses of user-generated text content using a lexicon." (2019).

• Sen, Anirban, Debanjan, Ghatak, Kapil, Kumar, Gurjeet, Khanuja, Deepak, Bansal, Mehak, Gupta, Kumari, Rekha, Saloni, Bhogale, Priyamvada, Trivedi, Aaditeshwar, Seth. "Studying the discourse on economic policies in India using mass media, social media, and the parliamentary question hour data." Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies. 2019.

• Sen, Anirban, Priya, Pooja, Aggarwal, Aditya, Guru, Deepak, Bansal, I, Mohammed, J, Goyal, K, Kumar, K, Mittal, Manpreet, Singh, others. "Empirical Analysis of the Presence of Power Elite in Media." Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies. 2018.

• Sen, Anirban, A, Agarwal, Aditya, Guru, A, Choudhuri, G, Singh, Imran, Mohammed, J, Goyal, K, Mittal, Manpreet, Singh, Mridul, Goel, others. "Leveraging Web Data to Monitor Changes in Corporate-Government Interlocks in India." Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies. 2018.

• Sen, Anirban, Manjira, Sinha, Sandya, Mannarswamy, Shourya, Roy. "Stance classification of multi-perspective consumer health information." Proceedings of the ACM India joint international conference on data science and management of data. 2018.

• Sen, Anirban, Manjira, Sinha, Sandya, Mannarswamy, Shourya, Roy. "Multi-task representation learning for enhanced emotion categorization in short text." Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 21st Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2017, Jeju, South Korea, May 23-26, 2017, Proceedings, Part II 21. 2017.

• Sen, Anirban, Manjira, Sinha, Sandya, Mannarswamy. "Improving Similar Question Retrieval using a Novel Tripartite Neural Network based Approach." Proceedings of the 9th Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation. 2017.

• Mundra, Shreshtha, Sandya, Mannarswamy, Manjira, Sinha, Anirban, Sen. "Embedding learning of figurative phrases for emotion classification in micro-blog texts." Proceedings of the 4th ACM IKDD Conferences on Data Sciences. 2017.

• Mundra, Shreshtha, Anirban, Sen, Manjira, Sinha, Sandya, Mannarswamy, Sandipan, Dandapat, Shourya, Roy. "Fine-grained emotion detection in contact center chat utterances." Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 21st Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2017, Jeju, South Korea, May 23-26, 2017, Proceedings, Part II 21. 2017.

• Bora, Siddharth, Harvineet, Singh, Anirban, Sen, Amitabha, Bagchi, Parag, Singla. "On the role of conductance, geography and topology in predicting hashtag virality". Social Network Analysis and Mining 5. (2015): 1–15.

• Sen, Anirban, Koustav, Rudra, Saptarshi, Ghosh. "Extracting situational awareness from microblogs during disaster events." 2015 7th international conference on communication systems and networks (Comsnets). 2015.

• Mukherjee, Anirban, Sarbartha, Sengupta, A, Sen, D, Chakraborty, U, Garain. "Text to diagram conversion: A method for formal representation of natural language geometry problems." Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications. 2013.

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