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In-Group Love, Out-Group Hate: A Framework to Measure Affective Polarization via Contentious Online Discussions
Buddhika Nettasinghe, Ashwin Rao, Bohan Jiang +2
Affective polarization, the emotional divide between ideological groups marked by in-group love and out-group hate, has intensified in the United States, driving contentious issues…
Assessing the Impact of Conspiracy Theories Using Large Language Models
Bohan Jiang, Dawei Li, Zhen Tan +5
Measuring the relative impact of CTs is important for prioritizing responses and allocating resources effectively, especially during crises. However, assessing the actual impact of…
#EpiTwitter: Public Health Messaging During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ashwin Rao, Nazanin Sabri, Siyi Guo +2
Effective communication during health crises is critical, with social media serving as a key platform for public health experts (PHEs) to engage with the public. However, it also a…
Don't Blame the Data, Blame the Model: Understanding Noise and Bias When Learning from Subjective Annotations
Abhishek Anand, Negar Mokhberian, Prathyusha Naresh Kumar +5
Researchers have raised awareness about the harms of aggregating labels especially in subjective tasks that naturally contain disagreements among human annotators. In this work we…
Reading Between the Tweets: Deciphering Ideological Stances of Interconnected Mixed-Ideology Communities
Zihao He, Ashwin Rao, Siyi Guo +2
Recent advances in NLP have improved our ability to understand the nuanced worldviews of online communities. Existing research focused on probing ideological stances treats liberal…
Whose Emotions and Moral Sentiments Do Language Models Reflect?
Zihao He, Siyi Guo, Ashwin Rao +1
Language models (LMs) are known to represent the perspectives of some social groups better than others, which may impact their performance, especially on subjective tasks such as c…
The Pulse of Mood Online: Unveiling Emotional Reactions in a Dynamic Social Media Landscape
Siyi Guo, Zihao He, Ashwin Rao +3
The rich and dynamic information environment of social media provides researchers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs with opportunities to learn about social phenomena in a timely m…