12 papers
The Great Data Standoff: Researchers vs. Platforms Under the Digital Services Act
Catalina Goanta, Savvas Zannettou, Rishabh Kaushal +6
To facilitate accountability and transparency, the Digital Services Act (DSA) sets up a process through which Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) need to grant vetted researchers a…
A Study of Crosslinguistic Influence in Language Models
Abderrahmane Issam, Yusuf Can Semerci, Jan Scholtes +1
The sequential acquisition of languages inevitably leads to Crosslinguistic Influence (CLI), where the syntactic properties of a first language (L1) impact the processing of a seco…
Evaluating LLM-Generated Legal Explanations for Regulatory Compliance in Social Media Influencer Marketing
Haoyang Gui, Thales Bertaglia, Taylor Annabell +3
The rise of influencer marketing has blurred boundaries between organic content and sponsored content, making the enforcement of legal rules relating to transparency challenging. E…
DTW-Align: Bridging the Modality Gap in End-to-End Speech Translation with Dynamic Time Warping Alignment
Abderrahmane Issam, Yusuf Can Semerci, Jan Scholtes +1
End-to-End Speech Translation (E2E-ST) is the task of translating source speech directly into target text bypassing the intermediate transcription step. The representation discrepa…
You Are What You Train: Effects of Data Composition on Training Context-aware Machine Translation Models
PaweÅ MÄ ka, Yusuf Can Semerci, Jan Scholtes +1
Achieving human-level translations requires leveraging context to ensure coherence and handle complex phenomena like pronoun disambiguation. Sparsity of contextually rich examples…
Are Companies Taking AI Risks Seriously? A Systematic Analysis of Companies' AI Risk Disclosures in SEC 10-K forms
Lucas G. Uberti-Bona Marin, Bram Rijsbosch, Gerasimos Spanakis +1
As Artificial Intelligence becomes increasingly central to corporate strategies, concerns over its risks are growing too. In response, regulators are pushing for greater transparen…