5 papers
Discovering Conceptual Metaphors Across Topics and Media Types
Alexandria Leto, Rohan Das, Juan Vásquez +2
Conceptual metaphors guide our thinking and actions by allowing us to reason about more abstract experiences (e.g., paying taxes) in terms of more concrete or embodied experiences…
How Do We Engage with Other Disciplines? A Framework to Study Meaningful Interdisciplinary Discourse in Scholarly Publications
Bagyasree Sudharsan, Alexandria Leto, Maria Leonor Pacheco
With the rising popularity of interdisciplinary work and increasing institutional incentives in this direction, there is a growing need to understand how resulting publications inc…
A Structured Clustering Approach for Inducing Media Narratives
Rohan Das, Advait Deshmukh, Alexandria Leto +3
Media narratives wield tremendous power in shaping public opinion, yet computational approaches struggle to capture the nuanced storytelling structures that communication theory em…
Toward Optimal Search and Retrieval for RAG
Alexandria Leto, Cecilia Aguerrebere, Ishwar Bhati +3
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a promising method for addressing some of the memory-related challenges associated with Large Language Models (LLMs). Two separate systems f…
Framing in the Presence of Supporting Data: A Case Study in U.S. Economic News
Alexandria Leto, Elliot Pickens, Coen D. Needell +2
The mainstream media has much leeway in what it chooses to cover and how it covers it. These choices have real-world consequences on what people know and their subsequent behaviors…