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Social Media for Mental Health: Data, Methods, and Findings
Nur Shazwani Kamarudin, Ghazaleh Beigi, Lydia Manikonda +1
There is an increasing number of virtual communities and forums available on the web. With social media, people can freely communicate and share their thoughts, ask personal questi…
Does Prompt Design Impact Quality of Data Imputation by LLMs?
Shreenidhi Srinivasan, Lydia Manikonda
Generating realistic synthetic tabular data presents a critical challenge in machine learning. It adds another layer of complexity when this data contain class imbalance problems.…
Comfort Foods and Community Connectedness: Investigating Diet Change during COVID-19 Using YouTube Videos on Twitter
Yelena Mejova, Lydia Manikonda
Unprecedented lockdowns at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have drastically changed the routines of millions of people, potentially impacting important health-related behaviors.…
Classification of Misinformation in New Articles using Natural Language Processing and a Recurrent Neural Network
Brendan Cunha, Lydia Manikonda
This paper seeks to address the classification of misinformation in news articles using a Long Short Term Memory Recurrent Neural Network. Articles were taken from 2018; a year tha…
Imperfect ImaGANation: Implications of GANs Exacerbating Biases on Facial Data Augmentation and Snapchat Selfie Lenses
Niharika Jain, Alberto Olmo, Sailik Sengupta +2
In this paper, we show that popular Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) exacerbate biases along the axes of gender and skin tone when given a skewed distribution of face-shots.…
Imagining an Engineer: On GAN-Based Data Augmentation Perpetuating Biases
Niharika Jain, Lydia Manikonda, Alberto Olmo Hernandez +2
The use of synthetic data generated by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has become quite a popular method to do data augmentation for many applications. While practitioners c…
Twitter for Sparking a Movement, Reddit for Sharing the Moment: #metoo through the Lens of Social Media
Lydia Manikonda, Ghazaleh Beigi, Huan Liu +1
Social media platforms are revolutionizing the way users communicate by increasing the exposure to highly stigmatized issues in the society. Sexual abuse is one such issue that rec…
What's up with Privacy?: User Preferences and Privacy Concerns in Intelligent Personal Assistants
Lydia Manikonda, Aditya Deotale, Subbarao Kambhampati
The recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have allowed individuals to rely on automated systems for a variety of reasons. Some of these systems are the currently pop…
Tweeting AI: Perceptions of Lay vs Expert Twitterati
Lydia Manikonda, Subbarao Kambhampati
With the recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), various organizations and individuals are debating about the progress of AI as a blessing or a curse for the future of…
Tweeting AI: Perceptions of AI-Tweeters (AIT) vs Expert AI-Tweeters (EAIT)
Lydia Manikonda, Cameron Dudley, Subbarao Kambhampati
With the recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), various organizations and individuals started debating about the progress of AI as a blessing or a curse for the futur…
Trending Chic: Analyzing the Influence of Social Media on Fashion Brands
Lydia Manikonda, Ragav Venkatesan, Subbarao Kambhampati +1
Social media platforms are popular venues for fashion brand marketing and advertising. With the introduction of native advertising, users don't have to endure banner ads that hold…
Analyzing User Activities, Demographics, Social Network Structure and User-Generated Content on Instagram
Lydia Manikonda, Yuheng Hu, Subbarao Kambhampati
Instagram is a relatively new form of communication where users can instantly share their current status by taking pictures and tweaking them using filters. It has seen a rapid gro…