3 papers
cs.CL2026
Directed Social Regard: Surfacing Targeted Advocacy, Opposition, Aid, Harms, and Victimization in Online Media
Scott Friedman, Ruta Wheelock, Sonja Schmer-Galunder +6
The language in online platforms, influence operations, and political rhetoric frequently directs a mix of pro-social sentiment (e.g., advocacy, helpfulness, compassion) and anti-s…
cs.CL2026
Relating Word Embedding Gender Biases to Gender Gaps: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Scott Friedman, Sonja Schmer-Galunder, Anthony Chen +1
Modern models for common NLP tasks often employ machine learning techniques and train on journalistic, social media, or other culturally-derived text. These have recently been scru…
cs.CL2024
Bottom-Up and Top-Down Analysis of Values, Agendas, and Observations in Corpora and LLMs
Scott E. Friedman, Noam Benkler, Drisana Mosaphir +8
Large language models (LLMs) generate diverse, situated, persuasive texts from a plurality of potential perspectives, influenced heavily by their prompts and training data. As part…