3 papers
cs.SI2026
"He gets to be the fun parent": Understanding and Supporting Burnt-Out Mothers in Online Communities
Nazanin Sabri, Ananya Malik, Bangzhao Shu +3
Maternal burnout is a psychological phenomena with documented harms to both mother and child, requiring prompt attention. Mothers experiencing burnout might choose to turn to onlin…
cs.CL2025
Are LLMs Empathetic to All? Investigating the Influence of Multi-Demographic Personas on a Model's Empathy
Ananya Malik, Nazanin Sabri, Melissa Karnaze +1
Large Language Models' (LLMs) ability to converse naturally is empowered by their ability to empathetically understand and respond to their users. However, emotional experiences ar…
cs.CL2025
Who Speaks Matters: Analysing the Influence of the Speaker's Ethnicity on Hate Classification
Ananya Malik, Kartik Sharma, Shaily Bhatt +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a lucrative promise for scalable content moderation, including hate speech detection. However, they are also known to be brittle and biased again…