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AI Credibility Signals Outrank Institutions and Engagement in Shaping News Perception on Social Media
Adnan Hoq, Matthew Facciani, Tim Weninger
AI-generated content is rapidly becoming a salient component of online information ecosystems, yet its influence on public trust and epistemic judgments remains poorly understood.…
Cell Instance Segmentation: The Devil Is in the Boundaries
Peixian Liang, Yifan Ding, Yizhe Zhang +9
State-of-the-art (SOTA) methods for cell instance segmentation are based on deep learning (DL) semantic segmentation approaches, focusing on distinguishing foreground pixels from b…
The Power of Framing: How News Headlines Guide Search Behavior
Amrit Poudel, Maria Milkowski, Tim Weninger
Search engines play a central role in how people gather information, but subtle cues like headline framing may influence not only what users believe but also how they search. While…
Social and Political Framing in Search Engine Results
Amrit Poudel, Tim Weninger
Search engines play a crucial role in shaping public discourse by influencing how information is accessed and framed. While prior research has extensively examined various dimensio…
Digital Gatekeepers: Google's Role in Curating Hashtags and Subreddits
Amrit Poudel, Yifan Ding, Jurgen Pfeffer +1
Search engines play a crucial role as digital gatekeepers, shaping the visibility of Web and social media content through algorithmic curation. This study investigates how search e…
Citations and Trust in LLM Generated Responses
Yifan Ding, Matthew Facciani, Amrit Poudel +5
Question answering systems are rapidly advancing, but their opaque nature may impact user trust. We explored trust through an anti-monitoring framework, where trust is predicted to…
MedCodER: A Generative AI Assistant for Medical Coding
Krishanu Das Baksi, Elijah Soba, John J. Higgins +8
Medical coding is essential for standardizing clinical data and communication but is often time-consuming and prone to errors. Traditional Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods…
Reputation Transfer in the Twitter Diaspora
Kristina Radivojevic, DJ Adams, Griffin Laszlo +2
Social media platforms have witnessed a dynamic landscape of user migration in recent years, fueled by changes in ownership, policy, and user preferences. This paper explores the p…
Learning from Litigation: Graphs and LLMs for Retrieval and Reasoning in eDiscovery
Sounak Lahiri, Sumit Pai, Tim Weninger +1
Electronic Discovery (eDiscovery) requires identifying relevant documents from vast collections for legal production requests. While artificial intelligence (AI) and natural langua…
SCHENO: Measuring Schema vs. Noise in Graphs
Justus Isaiah Hibshman, Adnan Hoq, Tim Weninger
Real-world data is typically a noisy manifestation of a core pattern (schema), and the purpose of data mining algorithms is to uncover that pattern, thereby splitting (i.e. decompo…
Span-Oriented Information Extraction -- A Unifying Perspective on Information Extraction
Yifan Ding, Michael Yankoski, Tim Weninger
Information Extraction refers to a collection of tasks within Natural Language Processing (NLP) that identifies sub-sequences within text and their labels. These tasks have been us…
ChatEL: Entity Linking with Chatbots
Yifan Ding, Qingkai Zeng, Tim Weninger
Entity Linking (EL) is an essential and challenging task in natural language processing that seeks to link some text representing an entity within a document or sentence with its c…
An Avalanche of Images on Telegram Preceded Russia's Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
William Theisen, Michael Yankoski, Kristina Hook +3
Governments use propaganda, including through visual content -- or Politically Salient Image Patterns (PSIP) -- on social media, to influence and manipulate public opinion. In the…
EntGPT: Entity Linking with Generative Large Language Models
Yifan Ding, Amrit Poudel, Qingkai Zeng +3
Entity Linking in natural language processing seeks to match text entities to their corresponding entries in a dictionary or knowledge base. Traditional approaches rely on contextu…
Navigating the Post-API Dilemma | Search Engine Results Pages Present a Biased View of Social Media Data
Amrit Poudel, Tim Weninger
Recent decisions to discontinue access to social media APIs are having detrimental effects on Internet research and the field of computational social science as a whole. This lack…