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most citedAI in the Gray: Exploring Moderation Policies in Dialogic Large Language Models vs. Human Answers in Controversial Topics

23 citations · 56 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CL2025

Conversation Kernels: A Flexible Mechanism to Learn Relevant Context for Online Conversation Understanding

Vibhor Agarwal, Arjoo Gupta, Suparna De +1

Understanding online conversations has attracted research attention with the growth of social networks and online discussion forums. Content analysis of posts and replies in online…

cs.CL2024

MedHalu: Hallucinations in Responses to Healthcare Queries by Large Language Models

Vibhor Agarwal, Yiqiao Jin, Mohit Chandra +3

Large language models (LLMs) are starting to complement traditional information seeking mechanisms such as web search. LLM-powered chatbots like ChatGPT are gaining prominence amon…

cs.CY2024

Decentralised Moderation for Interoperable Social Networks: A Conversation-based Approach for Pleroma and the Fediverse

Vibhor Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Nishanth Sastry +3

The recent development of decentralised and interoperable social networks (such as the "fediverse") creates new challenges for content moderators. This is because millions of posts…

cs.CL2023

GASCOM: Graph-based Attentive Semantic Context Modeling for Online Conversation Understanding

Vibhor Agarwal, Yu Chen, Nishanth Sastry

Online conversation understanding is an important yet challenging NLP problem which has many useful applications (e.g., hate speech detection). However, online conversations typica…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

HateRephrase: Zero- and Few-Shot Reduction of Hate Intensity in Online Posts using Large Language Models

Vibhor Agarwal, Yu Chen, Nishanth Sastry

Hate speech has become pervasive in today's digital age. Although there has been considerable research to detect hate speech or generate counter speech to combat hateful views, the…

cs.LG2023★ 23 cited

AI in the Gray: Exploring Moderation Policies in Dialogic Large Language Models vs. Human Answers in Controversial Topics

Vahid Ghafouri, Vibhor Agarwal, Yong Zhang +3

The introduction of ChatGPT and the subsequent improvement of Large Language Models (LLMs) have prompted more and more individuals to turn to the use of ChatBots, both for informat…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

AnnoBERT: Effectively Representing Multiple Annotators' Label Choices to Improve Hate Speech Detection

Wenjie Yin, Vibhor Agarwal, Aiqi Jiang +2

Supervised approaches generally rely on majority-based labels. However, it is hard to achieve high agreement among annotators in subjective tasks such as hate speech detection. Exi…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

A Graph-Based Context-Aware Model to Understand Online Conversations

Vibhor Agarwal, Anthony P. Young, Sagar Joglekar +1

Online forums that allow for participatory engagement between users have been transformative for the public discussion of many important issues. However, such conversations can som…

cs.CY2022★ 10 cited

"Way back then": A Data-driven View of 25+ years of Web Evolution

Vibhor Agarwal, Nishanth Sastry

Since the inception of the first web page three decades back, the Web has evolved considerably, from static HTML pages in the beginning to the dynamic web pages of today, from main…

cs.CL2022★ 16 cited

GraphNLI: A Graph-based Natural Language Inference Model for Polarity Prediction in Online Debates

Vibhor Agarwal, Sagar Joglekar, Anthony P. Young +1

Online forums that allow participatory engagement between users have been transformative for public discussion of important issues. However, debates on such forums can sometimes es…

cs.CY2021

Under the Spotlight: Web Tracking in Indian Partisan News Websites

Vibhor Agarwal, Yash Vekaria, Pushkal Agarwal +5

India is experiencing intense political partisanship and sectarian divisions. The paper performs, to the best of our knowledge, the first comprehensive analysis on the Indian onlin…

cs.CY2021

Differential Tracking Across Topical Webpages of Indian News Media

Yash Vekaria, Vibhor Agarwal, Pushkal Agarwal +4

Online user privacy and tracking have been extensively studied in recent years, especially due to privacy and personal data-related legislations in the EU and the USA, such as the…