3 papers
cs.IR2026
Relevance is not enough: A Communication-Oriented Retrieval System for Consequential Scientific Question Answering
Avina Nakarmi, Naga Datha Saikiran Battula, Anthony Diaz +1
AI systems increasingly answer scientific questions about health, safety, and the environment. But most retrieval-augmented generation systems are tuned to provide factually correc…
cs.CV2026
A Multimodal Reasoning Typology for Grounding Chart-Image Coherence in Science Communication
Avina Nakarmi, Sohom Sen, Xun Song +2
Charts and images appear together throughout scientific publications, yet most computational work does not characterize their coherence. We argue that a chart, its accompanying ima…
cs.HC2026
Rationalize: Shared Semantic Reasoning for Human-AI Alignment
Aritra Dasgupta, Naga Datha Saikiran Battula, Avina Nakarmi +3
We introduce Rationalize, a role-pair framework for shared semantic reasoning between humans and AI models in data-driven sensemaking. Building on ideas in human-machine teaming an…