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20192026
most citedHuman-LLM Compound System for Scientific Ideation through Facet Recombination and Novelty Evaluation

6 citations · 18 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2026

Old Ideas, Novel Problems: The Instability of LLM-Based Novelty Evaluation

Noy Sternlicht, Simra Shahid, Peter Jansen +3

AI-based ideation systems are often evaluated on the novelty of their ideas, and that judgment is increasingly delegated to large language models. Such judges are typically built a…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

Literature-Grounded Novelty Assessment of Scientific Ideas

Simra Shahid, Marissa Radensky, Raymond Fok +3

Automated scientific idea generation systems have made remarkable progress, yet the automatic evaluation of idea novelty remains a critical and underexplored challenge. Manual eval…

cs.LG2024

Towards Operationalizing Right to Data Protection

Abhinav Java, Simra Shahid, Chirag Agarwal

The widespread practice of indiscriminate data scraping to fine-tune language models (LMs) raises significant legal and ethical concerns, particularly regarding compliance with dat…

cs.HC2024★ 3 cited

CoPrompter: User-Centric Evaluation of LLM Instruction Alignment for Improved Prompt Engineering

Ishika Joshi, Simra Shahid, Shreeya Venneti +5

Ensuring large language models' (LLMs) responses align with prompt instructions is crucial for application development. Based on our formative study with industry professionals, th…

cs.HC2024★ 6 cited

Human-LLM Compound System for Scientific Ideation through Facet Recombination and Novelty Evaluation

Marissa Radensky, Simra Shahid, Raymond Fok +3

The scientific ideation process often involves blending facets of existing papers to create new ideas. We contribute Scideator, the first human-LLM system for facet-based scientifi…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Thinking Fair and Slow: On the Efficacy of Structured Prompts for Debiasing Language Models

Shaz Furniturewala, Surgan Jandial, Abhinav Java +4

Existing debiasing techniques are typically training-based or require access to the model's internals and output distributions, so they are inaccessible to end-users looking to ada…

cs.CV2024

LEAST: "Local" text-conditioned image style transfer

Silky Singh, Surgan Jandial, Simra Shahid +1

Text-conditioned style transfer enables users to communicate their desired artistic styles through text descriptions, offering a new and expressive means of achieving stylization.…

cs.CL2023

All Should Be Equal in the Eyes of Language Models: Counterfactually Aware Fair Text Generation

Pragyan Banerjee, Abhinav Java, Surgan Jandial +4

Fairness in Language Models (LMs) remains a longstanding challenge, given the inherent biases in training data that can be perpetuated by models and affect the downstream tasks. Re…

cs.IR2023

HyHTM: Hyperbolic Geometry based Hierarchical Topic Models

Simra Shahid, Tanay Anand, Nikitha Srikanth +3

Hierarchical Topic Models (HTMs) are useful for discovering topic hierarchies in a collection of documents. However, traditional HTMs often produce hierarchies where lowerlevel top…

cs.IR2020★ 1 cited

Devising Malware Characterstics using Transformers

Simra Shahid, Tanmay Singh, Yash Sharma +1

With the increasing number of cybersecurity threats, it becomes more difficult for researchers to skim through the security reports for malware analysis. There is a need to be able…

cs.CL2019★ 5 cited

Suggestion Mining from Online Reviews using ULMFiT

Sarthak Anand, Debanjan Mahata, Kartik Aggarwal +6

In this paper we present our approach and the system description for Sub Task A of SemEval 2019 Task 9: Suggestion Mining from Online Reviews and Forums. Given a sentence, the task…

cs.CL2019★ 1 cited

Identifying Offensive Posts and Targeted Offense from Twitter

Haimin Zhang, Debanjan Mahata, Simra Shahid +5

In this paper we present our approach and the system description for Sub-task A and Sub Task B of SemEval 2019 Task 6: Identifying and Categorizing Offensive Language in Social Med…