3 papers
cs.CL2026
Characterizing Narrative Content in Web-scale LLM Pretraining Data
Teagan Johnson, Elliott Ash, Andrew Piper +1
The narrative composition of web-scale LLM pretraining corpora remains largely unexplored even though narrative is a fundamental mode of human communication. We present the first f…
cs.SI2026
Good Question! The Effect of Positive Feedback on Contributions to Online Public Goods
Johannes Wachs, Leonore Röseler, Tobias Gesche +2
Online platforms where volunteers answer each other's questions are important sources of knowledge, yet participation is declining. We ran a pre-registered experiment on Stack Over…
cs.CL2025
Where Do People Tell Stories Online? Story Detection Across Online Communities
Maria Antoniak, Joel Mire, Maarten Sap +2
Story detection in online communities is a challenging task as stories are scattered across communities and interwoven with non-storytelling spans within a single text. We address…