5 papers
Information Access of the Oppressed: Freirean Design for Emancipatory Information Access
Bhaskar Mitra, Nicola Neophytou, Sireesh Gururaja
Online information access (IA) platforms are targets of authoritarian capture. We explore the question of how to safeguard our platforms and ensure emancipatory outcomes through th…
Collage: Decomposable Rapid Prototyping for Information Extraction on Scientific PDFs
Sireesh Gururaja, Yueheng Zhang, Guannan Tang +6
Recent years in NLP have seen the continued development of domain-specific information extraction tools for scientific documents, alongside the release of increasingly multimodal p…
Beyond Text: Characterizing Domain Expert Needs in Document Research
Sireesh Gururaja, Nupoor Gandhi, Jeremiah Milbauer +1
Working with documents is a key part of almost any knowledge work, from contextualizing research in a literature review to reviewing legal precedent. Recently, as their capabilitie…
LLMs as Workers in Human-Computational Algorithms? Replicating Crowdsourcing Pipelines with LLMs
Tongshuang Wu, Haiyi Zhu, Maya Albayrak +21
LLMs have shown promise in replicating human-like behavior in crowdsourcing tasks that were previously thought to be exclusive to human abilities. However, current efforts focus ma…
Basic Research, Lethal Effects: Military AI Research Funding as Enlistment
David Gray Widder, Sireesh Gururaja, Lucy Suchman
In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorithmically based warfi…