Publications (62)
Exploring Social Choice Mechanisms for Recommendation Fairness in SCRUF
Amanda Aird, Cassidy All, Paresha Farastu +4
Fairness problems in recommender systems often have a complexity in practice that is not adequately captured in simplified research formulations. A social choice formulation of the…
"And the Winner Is...": Dynamic Lotteries for Multi-group Fairness-Aware Recommendation
Nasim Sonboli, Robin Burke, Nicholas Mattei +2
As recommender systems are being designed and deployed for an increasing number of socially-consequential applications, it has become important to consider what properties of fairn…
Improving Natural Language Inference Using External Knowledge in the Science Questions Domain
Xiaoyan Wang, Pavan Kapanipathi, Ryan Musa +8
Natural Language Inference (NLI) is fundamental to many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications including semantic search and question answering. The NLI problem has gained…
Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: the Role of Metacognition
Marianna Bergamaschi Ganapini, Murray Campbell, Francesco Fabiano +7
AI systems have seen dramatic advancement in recent years, bringing many applications that pervade our everyday life. However, we are still mostly seeing instances of narrow AI: ma…
Social Mechanism Design: Making Maximally Acceptable Decisions
Ben Abramowitz, Nicholas Mattei
Agents care not only about the outcomes of collective decisions but also about how decisions are made. In many cases, both the outcome and the procedure affect whether agents see a…
Answering Science Exam Questions Using Query Rewriting with Background Knowledge
Ryan Musa, Xiaoyan Wang, Achille Fokoue +6
Open-domain question answering (QA) is an important problem in AI and NLP that is emerging as a bellwether for progress on the generalizability of AI methods and techniques. Much o…