5 papers
Argument-Based Consistency in Toxicity Explanations of LLMs
Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Joanna Roy, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed +1
The discourse around toxicity and LLMs in NLP largely revolves around detection tasks. This work shifts the focus to evaluating LLMs' reasoning about toxicity - from their explanat…
How do the Global South Diasporas Mobilize for Transnational Political Change?
Dipto Das, Afrin Prio, Pritu Saha +2
This paper examines how non-resident Bangladeshis mobilized during the 2024 quota-reform turned pro-democracy movement, leveraging social platforms and remittance flows to challeng…
Reasoning About Reasoning: Towards Informed and Reflective Use of LLM Reasoning in HCI
Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Sally Zhang, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed +1
Reasoning is a distinctive human-like characteristic attributed to LLMs in HCI due to their ability to simulate various human-level tasks. However, this work argues that the reason…
BTPD: A Multilingual Hand-curated Dataset of Bengali Transnational Political Discourse Across Online Communities
Dipto Das, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha
Understanding political discourse in online spaces is crucial for analyzing public opinion and ideological polarization. While social computing and computational linguistics have e…
Talking About the Assumption in the Room
Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Faisal M. Lalani, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed +2
The reference to assumptions in how practitioners use or interact with machine learning (ML) systems is ubiquitous in HCI and responsible ML discourse. However, what remains unclea…