4 papers
Are we chasing ghosts? Quantifying unattributable polarization, and attributing the rest to annotator groups
Dimitris Tsirmpas, John Pavlopoulos
Standard agreement metrics often fail to capture systematic differences in opinion between minority and majority-group annotators, jeopardizing tasks such as hate speech and toxici…
To Facilitate or not to Facilitate: Human and LLM Facilitator Tendencies in Online Discussions
Dimitris Tsirmpas, Katerina Korre, John Pavlopoulos
Automating facilitation in online discussions is a long-standing social concern given the increasing time we spend on online spaces and the failure of content moderation approaches…
Designing Synthetic Discussion Generation Systems: A Case Study for Online Facilitation
Dimitris Tsirmpas, Ion Androutsopoulos, John Pavlopoulos
A critical challenge in social science research is the high cost associated with experiments involving human participants. We identify Synthetic Discussion Generation (SDG), a nove…
Evaluation and Facilitation of Online Discussions in the LLM Era: A Survey
Katerina Korre, Dimitris Tsirmpas, Nikos Gkoumas +5
We present a survey of methods for assessing and enhancing the quality of online discussions, focusing on the potential of LLMs. While online discourses aim, at least in theory, to…