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The MediaSpin Dataset: Post-Publication News Headline Edits Annotated for Media Bias
Preetika Verma, Kokil Jaidka
We present MediaSpin, a large-scale language resource capturing how major news outlets modify headlines after publication, and MediaSpin-in-the-Wild, a complementary dataset linkin…
GitSearch: Enhancing Community Notes Generation with Gap-Informed Targeted Search
Sahajpreet Singh, Kokil Jaidka, Min-Yen Kan
Community-based moderation offers a scalable alternative to centralized fact-checking, yet it faces significant structural challenges, and existing AI-based methods fail in "cold s…
Incivility and Rigidity: Evaluating the Risks of Fine-Tuning LLMs for Political Argumentation
Svetlana Churina, Kokil Jaidka
Incivility on platforms such as Twitter (now X) and Reddit complicates the development of AI systems that can support productive, rhetorically sound political argumentation. We pre…
"Reasoning" with Rhetoric: On the Style-Evidence Tradeoff in LLM-Generated Counter-Arguments
Preetika Verma, Kokil Jaidka, Svetlana Churina
Large language models (LLMs) play a key role in generating evidence-based and stylistic counter-arguments, yet their effectiveness in real-world applications has been underexplored…
PHAnToM: Persona-based Prompting Has An Effect on Theory-of-Mind Reasoning in Large Language Models
Fiona Anting Tan, Gerard Christopher Yeo, Kokil Jaidka +6
The use of LLMs in natural language reasoning has shown mixed results, sometimes rivaling or even surpassing human performance in simpler classification tasks while struggling with…
Impact of Decoding Methods on Human Alignment of Conversational LLMs
Shaz Furniturewala, Kokil Jaidka, Yashvardhan Sharma
To be included into chatbot systems, Large language models (LLMs) must be aligned with human conversational conventions. However, being trained mainly on web-scraped data gives exi…