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Style Matters! Investigating Linguistic Style in Online Communities
Osama Khalid, Padmini Srinivasan
Content has historically been the primary lens used to study language in online communities. This paper instead focuses on the linguistic style of communities. While we know that i…
Smells like Teen Spirit: An Exploration of Sensorial Style in Literary Genres
Osama Khalid, Padmini Srinivasan
It is well recognized that sensory perceptions and language have interconnections through numerous studies in psychology, neuroscience, and sensorial linguistics. Set in this rich…
Don't sweat the small stuff, classify the rest: Sample Shielding to protect text classifiers against adversarial attacks
Jonathan Rusert, Padmini Srinivasan
Deep learning (DL) is being used extensively for text classification. However, researchers have demonstrated the vulnerability of such classifiers to adversarial attacks. Attackers…
A Girl Has A Name, And It's ... Adversarial Authorship Attribution for Deobfuscation
Wanyue Zhai, Jonathan Rusert, Zubair Shafiq +1
Recent advances in natural language processing have enabled powerful privacy-invasive authorship attribution. To counter authorship attribution, researchers have proposed a variety…
Suum Cuique: Studying Bias in Taboo Detection with a Community Perspective
Osama Khalid, Jonathan Rusert, Padmini Srinivasan
Prior research has discussed and illustrated the need to consider linguistic norms at the community level when studying taboo (hateful/offensive/toxic etc.) language. However, a me…
On The Robustness of Offensive Language Classifiers
Jonathan Rusert, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan
Social media platforms are deploying machine learning based offensive language classification systems to combat hateful, racist, and other forms of offensive speech at scale. Howev…
Making a Radical Misogynist: How online social engagement with the Manosphere influences traits of radicalization
Hussam Habib, Padmini Srinivasan, Rishab Nithyanand
The algorithms and the interactions facilitated by online platforms have been used by radical groups to recruit vulnerable individuals to their cause. This has resulted in the shar…
Avengers Ensemble! Improving Transferability of Authorship Obfuscation
Muhammad Haroon, Fareed Zaffar, Padmini Srinivasan +1
Stylometric approaches have been shown to be quite effective for real-world authorship attribution. To mitigate the privacy threat posed by authorship attribution, researchers have…
A Girl Has A Name: Detecting Authorship Obfuscation
Asad Mahmood, Zubair Shafiq, Padmini Srinivasan
Authorship attribution aims to identify the author of a text based on the stylometric analysis. Authorship obfuscation, on the other hand, aims to protect against authorship attrib…