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20242026
collaborators

9 papers

cs.CL2026

Whose Story Gets Told? Positionality and Bias in LLM Summaries of Life Narratives

Melanie Subbiah, Haaris Mian, Nicholas Deas +3

Increasingly, studies are exploring using Large Language Models (LLMs) for accelerated or scaled qualitative analysis of text data. While we can compare LLM accuracy against human…

cs.CL2026

Computational Representations of Character Significance in Novels

Haaris Mian, Melanie Subbiah, Sharon Marcus +2

Characters in novels have typically been modeled based on their presence in scenes in narrative, considering aspects like their actions, named mentions, and dialogue. This concepti…

cs.CL2025

Artificial Impressions: Evaluating Large Language Model Behavior Through the Lens of Trait Impressions

Nicholas Deas, Kathleen McKeown

We introduce and study artificial impressions--patterns in LLMs' internal representations of prompts that resemble human impressions and stereotypes based on language. We fit linea…

cs.LG2025

Guiding LLM Decision-Making with Fairness Reward Models

Zara Hall, Melanie Subbiah, Thomas P Zollo +2

Large language models are increasingly used to support high-stakes decisions, potentially influencing who is granted bail or receives a loan. Naive chain-of-thought sampling can im…

cs.CL2025

Reranking-based Generation for Unbiased Perspective Summarization

Narutatsu Ri, Nicholas Deas, Kathleen McKeown

Generating unbiased summaries in real-world settings such as political perspective summarization remains a crucial application of Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet, existing evalua…

cs.CL2025

AdvSumm: Adversarial Training for Bias Mitigation in Text Summarization

Mukur Gupta, Nikhil Reddy Varimalla, Nicholas Deas +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance in text summarization and are increasingly deployed in real-world applications. However, these systems often inher…