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Investigating Vaccine Buyer's Remorse: Post-Vaccination Decision Regret in COVID-19 Social Media Using Politically Diverse Human Annotation
Miles Stanley, Soumyajit Datta, Ashutosh Kumar +1
A significant gap exists in datasets regarding post-COVID-19 vaccination experiences, particularly ``vaccine buyer's remorse''. Understanding the prevalence and nature of vaccine r…
Community Needs and Assets: A Computational Analysis of Community Conversations
Md Towhidul Absar Chowdhury, Naveen Sharma, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh
A community needs assessment is a tool used by non-profits and government agencies to quantify the strengths and issues of a community, allowing them to allocate their resources be…
Infrastructure Ombudsman: Mining Future Failure Concerns from Structural Disaster Response
Md Towhidul Absar Chowdhury, Soumyajit Datta, Naveen Sharma +1
Current research concentrates on studying discussions on social media related to structural failures to improve disaster response strategies. However, detecting social web posts di…
Disentangling Societal Inequality from Model Biases: Gender Inequality in Divorce Court Proceedings
Sujan Dutta, Parth Srivastava, Vaishnavi Solunke +2
Divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage by a court. Since this is usually an unpleasant outcome of a marital union, each party may have reasons to call the decision to quit…
For Women, Life, Freedom: A Participatory AI-Based Social Web Analysis of a Watershed Moment in Iran's Gender Struggles
Adel Khorramrouz, Sujan Dutta, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh
In this paper, we present a computational analysis of the Persian language Twitter discourse with the aim to estimate the shift in stance toward gender equality following the death…
Quantifying the Academic Quality of Children's Videos using Machine Comprehension
Sumeet Kumar, Mallikarjuna T., Ashiqur Khudabukhsh
YouTube Kids (YTK) is one of the most popular kids' applications used by millions of kids daily. However, various studies have highlighted concerns about the videos on the platform…
Gender Bias, Social Bias and Representation: 70 Years of Bollywood
Kunal Khadilkar, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh, Tom M. Mitchell
With an outreach in more than 90 countries, a market share of 2.1 billion dollars and a target audience base of at least 1.2 billion people, Bollywood, aka the Mumbai film industry…
Fringe News Networks: Dynamics of US News Viewership following the 2020 Presidential Election
Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh, Rupak Sarkar, Mark S. Kamlet +1
The growing political polarization of the American electorate over the last several decades has been widely studied and documented. During the administration of President Donald Tr…
Social Media Attributions in the Context of Water Crisis
Rupak Sarkar, Hirak Sarkar, Sayantan Mahinder +1
Attribution of natural disasters/collective misfortune is a widely-studied political science problem. However, such studies are typically survey-centric or rely on a handful of exp…
Voice for the Voiceless: Active Sampling to Detect Comments Supporting the Rohingyas
Shriphani Palakodety, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh, Jaime G. Carbonell
The Rohingya refugee crisis is one of the biggest humanitarian crises of modern times with more than 600,000 Rohingyas rendered homeless according to the United Nations High Commis…
Hope Speech Detection: A Computational Analysis of the Voice of Peace
Shriphani Palakodety, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh, Jaime G. Carbonell
The recent Pulwama terror attack (February 14, 2019, Pulwama, Kashmir) triggered a chain of escalating events between India and Pakistan adding another episode to their 70-year-old…