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20192026
most citedArgument from Old Man's View: Assessing Social Bias in Argumentation

3 citations · 5 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2026

Cultural (In)Competence: Investigating Culture-Specific Stereotype Detection Capabilities of LLMs

Maximilian Spliethöver, Jannes Lötfering, Dominik Bachmann +4

Stereotypes are subjective constructs that are mediated by the cultural context in which they are viewed. Successfully modeling them thus also requires cultural competence. When us…

cs.LG2025

Dynamic Priors in Bayesian Optimization for Hyperparameter Optimization

Lukas Fehring, Marcel Wever, Maximilian Spliethöver +3

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a widely used approach to hyperparameter optimization (HPO). However, most existing HPO methods only incorporate expert knowledge during initializatio…

cs.CL2025

Investigating Co-Constructive Behavior of Large Language Models in Explanation Dialogues

Leandra Fichtel, Maximilian Spliethöver, Eyke Hüllermeier +9

The ability to generate explanations that are understood by explainees is the quintessence of explainable artificial intelligence. Since understanding depends on the explainee's ba…

cs.CL2025

Adaptive Prompting: Ad-hoc Prompt Composition for Social Bias Detection

Maximilian Spliethöver, Tim Knebler, Fabian Fumagalli +4

Recent advances on instruction fine-tuning have led to the development of various prompting techniques for large language models, such as explicit reasoning steps. However, the suc…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Disentangling Dialect from Social Bias via Multitask Learning to Improve Fairness

Maximilian Spliethöver, Sai Nikhil Menon, Henning Wachsmuth

Dialects introduce syntactic and lexical variations in language that occur in regional or social groups. Most NLP methods are not sensitive to such variations. This may lead to unf…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

No Word Embedding Model Is Perfect: Evaluating the Representation Accuracy for Social Bias in the Media

Maximilian Spliethöver, Maximilian Keiff, Henning Wachsmuth

News articles both shape and reflect public opinion across the political spectrum. Analyzing them for social bias can thus provide valuable insights, such as prevailing stereotypes…

cs.CL2021

Key Point Analysis via Contrastive Learning and Extractive Argument Summarization

Milad Alshomary, Timon Gurcke, Shahbaz Syed +5

Key point analysis is the task of extracting a set of concise and high-level statements from a given collection of arguments, representing the gist of these arguments. This paper p…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

Argument from Old Man's View: Assessing Social Bias in Argumentation

Maximilian Spliethöver, Henning Wachsmuth

Social bias in language - towards genders, ethnicities, ages, and other social groups - poses a problem with ethical impact for many NLP applications. Recent research has shown tha…

cs.CL2019

Is It Worth the Attention? A Comparative Evaluation of Attention Layers for Argument Unit Segmentation

Maximilian Spliethöver, Jonas Klaff, Hendrik Heuer

Attention mechanisms have seen some success for natural language processing downstream tasks in recent years and generated new State-of-the-Art results. A thorough evaluation of th…