6 papers
The Power of Framing: How News Headlines Guide Search Behavior
Amrit Poudel, Maria Milkowski, Tim Weninger
Search engines play a central role in how people gather information, but subtle cues like headline framing may influence not only what users believe but also how they search. While…
Social and Political Framing in Search Engine Results
Amrit Poudel, Tim Weninger
Search engines play a crucial role in shaping public discourse by influencing how information is accessed and framed. While prior research has extensively examined various dimensio…
Digital Gatekeepers: Google's Role in Curating Hashtags and Subreddits
Amrit Poudel, Yifan Ding, Jurgen Pfeffer +1
Search engines play a crucial role as digital gatekeepers, shaping the visibility of Web and social media content through algorithmic curation. This study investigates how search e…
EntGPT: Entity Linking with Generative Large Language Models
Yifan Ding, Amrit Poudel, Qingkai Zeng +3
Entity Linking in natural language processing seeks to match text entities to their corresponding entries in a dictionary or knowledge base. Traditional approaches rely on contextu…
Citations and Trust in LLM Generated Responses
Yifan Ding, Matthew Facciani, Amrit Poudel +5
Question answering systems are rapidly advancing, but their opaque nature may impact user trust. We explored trust through an anti-monitoring framework, where trust is predicted to…
Navigating the Post-API Dilemma | Search Engine Results Pages Present a Biased View of Social Media Data
Amrit Poudel, Tim Weninger
Recent decisions to discontinue access to social media APIs are having detrimental effects on Internet research and the field of computational social science as a whole. This lack…