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5 papers

cs.HC2026

How can LLMs Support Policy Researchers? Evaluating an LLM-Assisted Workflow for Large-Scale Unstructured Data

Yuhan Liu, Shuyao Zhou, Jakob Kaiser +5

Policy researchers need scalable ways to surface public views, yet they often rely on interviews, listening sessions, and surveys-analyzed thematically-that are slow, expensive, an…

cs.HC2025

FairFare: A Tool for Crowdsourcing Rideshare Data to Empower Labor Organizers

Dana Calacci, Varun Nagaraj Rao, Samantha Dalal +5

Rideshare workers experience unpredictable working conditions due to gig work platforms' reliance on opaque AI and algorithmic systems. In response to these challenges, we found th…

cs.HC2025

ConversAR: Exploring Embodied LLM-Powered Group Conversations in Augmented Reality for Second Language Learners

Jad Bendarkawi, Ashley Ponce, Sean Mata +6

Group conversations are valuable for second language (L2) learners as they provide opportunities to practice listening and speaking, exercise complex turn-taking skills, and experi…

cs.CL2025

LLMs Meet Finance: Fine-Tuning Foundation Models for the Open FinLLM Leaderboard

Varun Rao, Youran Sun, Mahendra Kumar +3

This paper investigates the application of large language models (LLMs) to financial tasks. We fine-tuned foundation models using the Open FinLLM Leaderboard as a benchmark. Buildi…

cs.CL2025

QuaLLM: An LLM-based Framework to Extract Quantitative Insights from Online Forums

Varun Nagaraj Rao, Eesha Agarwal, Samantha Dalal +2

Online discussion forums provide crucial data to understand the concerns of a wide range of real-world communities. However, the typical qualitative and quantitative methodologies…