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Entailed Between the Lines: Incorporating Implication into NLI
Shreya Havaldar, Hamidreza Alvari, John Palowitch +3
Much of human communication depends on implication, conveying meaning beyond literal words to express a wider range of thoughts, intentions, and feelings. For models to better unde…
Towards Realistic Synthetic User-Generated Content: A Scaffolding Approach to Generating Online Discussions
Krisztian Balog, John Palowitch, Barbara Ikica +3
The emergence of synthetic data represents a pivotal shift in modern machine learning, offering a solution to satisfy the need for large volumes of data in domains where real data…
SocialQuotes: Learning Contextual Roles of Social Media Quotes on the Web
John Palowitch, Hamidreza Alvari, Mehran Kazemi +2
Web authors frequently embed social media to support and enrich their content, creating the potential to derive web-based, cross-platform social media representations that can enab…
GeomVerse: A Systematic Evaluation of Large Models for Geometric Reasoning
Mehran Kazemi, Hamidreza Alvari, Ankit Anand +3
Large language models have shown impressive results for multi-hop mathematical reasoning when the input question is only textual. Many mathematical reasoning problems, however, con…
Mitigating Bias in Online Microfinance Platforms: A Case Study on Kiva.org
Soumajyoti Sarkar, Hamidreza Alvari
Over the last couple of decades in the lending industry, financial disintermediation has occurred on a global scale. Traditionally, even for small supply of funds, banks would act…
A Feature-Driven Approach for Identifying Pathogenic Social Media Accounts
Hamidreza Alvari, Ghazaleh Beigi, Soumajyoti Sarkar +4
Over the past few years, we have observed different media outlets' attempts to shift public opinion by framing information to support a narrative that facilitate their goals. Malic…