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most citedThe Unseen Targets of Hate -- A Systematic Review of Hateful Communication Datasets

8 citations · 17 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.CY2026

Total Simulated Survey Error: Designing and Diagnosing Survey Responses from Large Language Models

Indira Sen, Georg Ahnert, Leah von der Heyde +3

Large Language models (LLMs), having been trained on vast amounts of human-generated data, may encode the attitudes and behaviors of these humans. As such, LLMs show promise in mim…

cs.CY2025★ 2 cited

Missing the Margins: A Systematic Literature Review on the Demographic Representativeness of LLMs

Indira Sen, Marlene Lutz, Elisa Rogers +2

Many applications of Large Language Models (LLMs) require them to either simulate people or offer personalized functionality, making the demographic representativeness of LLMs cruc…

cs.CL2025

Do Psychometric Tests Work for Large Language Models? Evaluation of Tests on Sexism, Racism, and Morality

Jana Jung, Marlene Lutz, Indira Sen +1

Psychometric tests are increasingly used to assess psychological constructs in large language models (LLMs). However, it remains unclear whether these tests -- originally developed…

cs.CL2025

The Prompt Makes the Person(a): A Systematic Evaluation of Sociodemographic Persona Prompting for Large Language Models

Marlene Lutz, Indira Sen, Georg Ahnert +2

Persona prompting is increasingly used in large language models (LLMs) to simulate views of various sociodemographic groups. However, how a persona prompt is formulated can signifi…

cs.CY2025★ 1 cited

Only a Little to the Left: A Theory-grounded Measure of Political Bias in Large Language Models

Mats Faulborn, Indira Sen, Max Pellert +2

Prompt-based language models like GPT4 and LLaMa have been used for a wide variety of use cases such as simulating agents, searching for information, or for content analysis. For a…

cs.CY2024

Robustness and Confounders in the Demographic Alignment of LLMs with Human Perceptions of Offensiveness

Shayan Alipour, Indira Sen, Mattia Samory +1

Large language models (LLMs) are known to exhibit demographic biases, yet few studies systematically evaluate these biases across multiple datasets or account for confounding facto…

cs.CL2024★ 8 cited

The Unseen Targets of Hate -- A Systematic Review of Hateful Communication Datasets

Zehui Yu, Indira Sen, Dennis Assenmacher +5

Machine learning (ML)-based content moderation tools are essential to keep online spaces free from hateful communication. Yet, ML tools can only be as capable as the quality of the…

cs.CL2023

People Make Better Edits: Measuring the Efficacy of LLM-Generated Counterfactually Augmented Data for Harmful Language Detection

Indira Sen, Dennis Assenmacher, Mattia Samory +3

NLP models are used in a variety of critical social computing tasks, such as detecting sexist, racist, or otherwise hateful content. Therefore, it is imperative that these models a…

cs.CY2023★ 2 cited

Total Error Sheets for Datasets (TES-D) -- A Critical Guide to Documenting Online Platform Datasets

Leon Fröhling, Indira Sen, Felix Soldner +3

This paper proposes a template for documenting datasets that have been collected from online platforms for research purposes. The template should help to critically reflect on data…

cs.CL2022

Counterfactually Augmented Data and Unintended Bias: The Case of Sexism and Hate Speech Detection

Indira Sen, Mattia Samory, Claudia Wagner +1

Counterfactually Augmented Data (CAD) aims to improve out-of-domain generalizability, an indicator of model robustness. The improvement is credited with promoting core features of…

cs.SI2022

Insider Stories: Analyzing Internal Sustainability Efforts of Major US Companies from Online Reviews

Indira Sen, Daniele Quercia, Licia Capra +2

It is hard to establish whether a company supports internal sustainability efforts (ISEs) like gender equality, diversity, and general staff welfare, not least because of lack of m…

cs.CY2021

How Does Counterfactually Augmented Data Impact Models for Social Computing Constructs?

Indira Sen, Mattia Samory, Fabian Floeck +2

As NLP models are increasingly deployed in socially situated settings such as online abusive content detection, it is crucial to ensure that these models are robust. One way of imp…

cs.CY2020★ 3 cited

"Call me sexist, but...": Revisiting Sexism Detection Using Psychological Scales and Adversarial Samples

Mattia Samory, Indira Sen, Julian Kohne +2

Research has focused on automated methods to effectively detect sexism online. Although overt sexism seems easy to spot, its subtle forms and manifold expressions are not. In this…

cs.CY2019★ 1 cited

TED-On: A Total Error Framework for Digital Traces of Human Behavior on Online Platforms

Indira Sen, Fabian Floeck, Katrin Weller +2

Peoples' activities and opinions recorded as digital traces online, especially on social media and other web-based platforms, offer increasingly informative pictures of the public.…