3 papers
cs.DL2026
Exploring Serendipity in Information Seeking for Digital Collections: A Mixed-Methods Survey Study toward Human-Centered Design
Saumik Shashwat, Xiaoyi Xue, Benjamin Charles Germain Lee
In this paper, we explore user experience and perception of serendipity in information seeking for digital collections through a human-centered design lens. Beginning with an explo…
cs.DL2026
Viral Images: Identifying Reprintings within 1.5 Million Photographs in Chronicling America
Bruno Buccalon, Yueran Sun, Benjamin Charles Germain Lee
Within the millions of digitized historic American newspapers in the Chronicling America initiative are tens of millions of photographs, illustrations, cartoons, and advertisements…
cs.CL2026
Training LLMs with Reinforcement Learning for Intent-Aware Personalized Question Answering
Maryam Amirizaniani, Benjamin Charles Germain Lee, Jevin West +1
Effective personalized question answering (PQA) in language models requires grounding responses in the user's underlying intent, where intent refers to the implicit ``why'' behind…