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Do Small Language Models Learn to Negotiate? A Controlled Scaling Study of RL-Trained Sellers
Pedro Tabacof, Sagar Joglekar
LLM agents are starting to own the full customer experience. Soon, LLMs may be selling and buying on behalf of companies and customers respectively. Small models are more cost-effi…
Vitamin N: Benefits of Different Forms of Public Greenery for Urban Health
Sanja Šćepanović, Sagar Joglekar, Stephen Law +4
Urban greenery is often linked to better health, yet findings from past research have been inconsistent. One reason is that official greenery metrics measure the amount or nearness…
Our Nudges, Our Selves: Tailoring Mobile User Engagement Using Personality
Nima Jamalian, Marios Constantinides, Sagar Joglekar +2
To increase mobile user engagement, current apps employ a variety of behavioral nudges, but these engagement techniques are applied in a one-size-fits-all approach. Yet the very sa…
Multidimensional Tie Strength and Economic Development
Luca Maria Aiello, Sagar Joglekar, Daniele Quercia
The strength of social relations has been shown to affect an individual's access to opportunities. To date, however, the correspondence between tie strength and population's econom…
A Graph-Based Context-Aware Model to Understand Online Conversations
Vibhor Agarwal, Anthony P. Young, Sagar Joglekar +1
Online forums that allow for participatory engagement between users have been transformative for the public discussion of many important issues. However, such conversations can som…
GraphNLI: A Graph-based Natural Language Inference Model for Polarity Prediction in Online Debates
Vibhor Agarwal, Sagar Joglekar, Anthony P. Young +1
Online forums that allow participatory engagement between users have been transformative for public discussion of important issues. However, debates on such forums can sometimes es…
Retrofitting Meetings for Psychological Safety
Marios Constantinides, Sagar Joglekar, Daniele Quercia
Meetings are the fuel of organizations' productivity. At times, however, they are perceived as wasteful vaccums that deplete employee morale and productivity. Current meeting tools…
The Healthy States of America: Creating a Health Taxonomy with Social Media
Sanja Scepanovic, Luca Maria Aiello, Ke Zhou +2
Since the uptake of social media, researchers have mined online discussions to track the outbreak and evolution of specific diseases or chronic conditions such as influenza or depr…
Jane Jacobs in the Sky: Predicting Urban Vitality with Open Satellite Data
Sanja Šćepanović, Sagar Joglekar, Stephen Law +1
The presence of people in an urban area throughout the day -- often called 'urban vitality' -- is one of the qualities world-class cities aspire to the most, yet it is one of the h…
Humane Visual AI: Telling the Stories Behind a Medical Condition
Wonyoung So, Edyta P. Bogucka, Sanja Šćepanović +3
A biological understanding is key for managing medical conditions, yet psychological and social aspects matter too. The main problem is that these two aspects are hard to quantify…
MeetCues: Supporting Online Meetings Experience
Bon Adriel Aseniero, Marios Constantinides, Sagar Joglekar +2
The remote work ecosystem is transforming patterns of communication between teams and individuals located at distance. Particularly, the absence of certain subtle cues in current c…
Analysing Meso and Macro conversation structures in an online suicide support forum
Sagar Joglekar, Sumithra Velupillai, Rina Dutta +1
Platforms like Reddit and Twitter offer internet users an opportunity to talk about diverse issues, including those pertaining to physical and mental health. Some of these forums a…
How Epidemic Psychology Works on Twitter: Evolution of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S
Luca Maria Aiello, Daniele Quercia, Ke Zhou +3
Disruptions resulting from an epidemic might often appear to amount to chaos but, in reality, can be understood in a systematic way through the lens of "epidemic psychology". Accor…
Characterising User Content on a Multi-lingual Social Network
Pushkal Agarwal, Kiran Garimella, Sagar Joglekar +2
Social media has been on the vanguard of political information diffusion in the 21st century. Most studies that look into disinformation, political influence and fake-news focus on…
Stop Tracking Me Bro! Differential Tracking Of User Demographics On Hyper-partisan Websites
Pushkal Agarwal, Sagar Joglekar, Panagiotis Papadopoulos +2
Websites with hyper-partisan, left or right-leaning focus offer content that is typically biased towards the expectations of their target audience. Such content often polarizes use…
FaceLift: A transparent deep learning framework to beautify urban scenes
Sagar Joglekar, Daniele Quercia, Miriam Redi +3
In the area of computer vision, deep learning techniques have recently been used to predict whether urban scenes are likely to be considered beautiful: it turns out that these tech…
Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case
Aravindh Raman, Sagar Joglekar, Emiliano De Cristofaro +2
The Decentralised Web (DW) has recently seen a renewed momentum, with a number of DW platforms like Mastodon, Peer-Tube, and Hubzilla gaining increasing traction. These offer alter…
Who has the last word? Understanding How to Sample Online Discussions
Gioia Boschi, Anthony P. Young, Sagar Joglekar +2
In online debates individual arguments support or attack each other, leading to some subset of arguments being considered more relevant than others. However, in large discussions r…
Illuminating an Ecosystem of Partisan Websites
Shweta Bhatt, Sagar Joglekar, Shehar Bano +1
This paper aims to shed light on alternative news media ecosystems that are believed to have influenced opinions and beliefs by false and/or biased news reporting during the 2016 U…
Fake it till you make it: Fishing for Catfishes
Walid Magdy, Yehia Elkhatib, Gareth Tyson +2
Many adult content websites incorporate social networking features. Although these are popular, they raise significant challenges, including the potential for users to "catfish", i…