3 papers
cs.CY2025
Characterizing Online Activities Contributing to Suicide Mortality among Youth
Aparna Ananthasubramaniam, Elyse J. Thulin, Viktoryia Kalesnikava +7
The recent rise in youth suicide highlights the urgent need to understand how online experiences contribute to this public health issue. Our mixed-methods approach responds to this…
cs.SI2025
The Role of Network and Identity in the Diffusion of Hashtags
Aparna Ananthasubramaniam, Yufei 'Louise' Zhu, David Jurgens +1
The diffusion of culture online is theorized to be influenced by many interacting social factors (e.g., network and identity). However, most existing computational cascade models c…
cs.CL2024
Real or Robotic? Assessing Whether LLMs Accurately Simulate Qualities of Human Responses in Dialogue
Jonathan Ivey, Shivani Kumar, Jiayu Liu +12
Studying and building datasets for dialogue tasks is both expensive and time-consuming due to the need to recruit, train, and collect data from study participants. In response, muc…