4 papers
Contextualized Early Detection of Online Firestorms: A Sequential LLM-Based Approach
Besim Shala, Peter Mandl, Andreas Humpe +1
The paper presents a large language model system that can both retrospectively classify Reddit threads for firestorms and provide early warnings by sequentially estimating negativi…
The Distributed Open-Source Vulnerability Ecosystem
Peter Mandl, Paul Mandl
The paper proposes a conceptual framework for understanding how vulnerability information is created, standardized, enriched, and interpreted across the open‑source ecosystem, expl…
A Ground-Truth-Based Evaluation of Vulnerability Detection Across Multiple Ecosystems
Peter Mandl, Paul Mandl, Martin Häusl +1
Automated vulnerability detection tools are widely used to identify security vulnerabilities in software dependencies. However, the evaluation of such tools remains challenging due…
Digital Guardians: Can GPT-4, Perspective API, and Moderation API reliably detect hate speech in reader comments of German online newspapers?
Manuel Weber, Moritz Huber, Maximilian Auch +3
In recent years, toxic content and hate speech have become widespread phenomena on the internet. Moderators of online newspapers and forums are now required, partly due to legal re…