Search Results for author: Shaina Raza

Found 30 papers, 2 papers with code

Incorporating Medical Knowledge to Transformer-based Language Models for Medical Dialogue Generation

no code implementations BioNLP (ACL) 2022 Usman Naseem, Ajay Bandi, Shaina Raza, Junaid Rashid, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi

In this study, we propose a new method that addresses the challenges of medical dialogue generation by incorporating medical knowledge into transformer-based language models.

Dialogue Generation Medical Diagnosis

Automatic Fake News Detection in Political Platforms - A Transformer-based Approach

no code implementations ACL (CASE) 2021 Shaina Raza

Our proposed framework exploits the information from news articles and social contexts to detect fake news.

Fake News Detection

Accuracy meets Diversity in a News Recommender System

no code implementations COLING 2022 Shaina Raza, Syed Raza Bashir, Usman Naseem

We customize an augmented vector for each query and news item to introduce information interaction between the two towers.

Recommendation Systems

Developing Safe and Responsible Large Language Models -- A Comprehensive Framework

1 code implementation1 Apr 2024 Shaina Raza, Oluwanifemi Bamgbose, Shardul Ghuge, Fatemeh Tavakoli, Deepak John Reji

We introduce Safe and Responsible Large Language Model (SR$_{\text{LLM}}$) , a model designed to enhance the safety of language generation using LLMs.

Language Modelling Large Language Model +1

Equity in Healthcare: Analyzing Disparities in Machine Learning Predictions of Diabetic Patient Readmissions

no code implementations27 Mar 2024 Zainab Al-Zanbouri, Gauri Sharma, Shaina Raza

These findings emphasize the importance of choosing ML models carefully to ensure both accuracy and fairness for all patients.

Fairness

FakeWatch: A Framework for Detecting Fake News to Ensure Credible Elections

no code implementations14 Mar 2024 Shaina Raza, Tahniat Khan, Drai Paulen-Patterson, Veronica Chatrath, Mizanur Rahman, Oluwanifemi Bamgbose

In today's technologically driven world, the rapid spread of fake news, particularly during critical events like elections, poses a growing threat to the integrity of information.

Computational Efficiency Misinformation +1

Progress in Privacy Protection: A Review of Privacy Preserving Techniques in Recommender Systems, Edge Computing, and Cloud Computing

no code implementations20 Jan 2024 Syed Raza Bashir, Shaina Raza, Vojislav Misic

As digital technology evolves, the increasing use of connected devices brings both challenges and opportunities in the areas of mobile crowdsourcing, edge computing, and recommender systems.

Cloud Computing Edge-computing +2

FAIR Enough: How Can We Develop and Assess a FAIR-Compliant Dataset for Large Language Models' Training?

no code implementations19 Jan 2024 Shaina Raza, Shardul Ghuge, Chen Ding, Elham Dolatabadi, Deval Pandya

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) highlights the necessity for ethical considerations and data integrity in AI development, particularly emphasizing the role of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles.

Ethics Management

Reliability Analysis of Psychological Concept Extraction and Classification in User-penned Text

no code implementations12 Jan 2024 Muskan Garg, MSVPJ Sathvik, Amrit Chadha, Shaina Raza, Sunghwan Sohn

The social NLP research community witness a recent surge in the computational advancements of mental health analysis to build responsible AI models for a complex interplay between language use and self-perception.

Binary Classification

Analyzing the Impact of Fake News on the Anticipated Outcome of the 2024 Election Ahead of Time

no code implementations1 Dec 2023 Shaina Raza, Mizanur Rahman, Shardul Ghuge

Despite increasing awareness and research around fake news, there is still a significant need for datasets that specifically target racial slurs and biases within North American political speeches.

Benchmarking Language Modelling +1

Navigating News Narratives: A Media Bias Analysis Dataset

no code implementations30 Nov 2023 Shaina Raza

The proliferation of biased news narratives across various media platforms has become a prominent challenge, influencing public opinion on critical topics like politics, health, and climate change.

FakeWatch ElectionShield: A Benchmarking Framework to Detect Fake News for Credible US Elections

no code implementations27 Nov 2023 Tahniat Khan, Mizanur Rahman, Veronica Chatrath, Oluwanifemi Bamgbose, Shaina Raza

We have created a novel dataset of North American election-related news articles through a blend of advanced language models (LMs) and thorough human verification, for precision and relevance.

Benchmarking Computational Efficiency +1

She had Cobalt Blue Eyes: Prompt Testing to Create Aligned and Sustainable Language Models

no code implementations20 Oct 2023 Veronica Chatrath, Oluwanifemi Bamgbose, Shaina Raza

Additionally, implementing a test suite such as ours lowers the environmental overhead of making models safe and fair.

Fairness

Mitigating Bias in Conversations: A Hate Speech Classifier and Debiaser with Prompts

no code implementations14 Jul 2023 Shaina Raza, Chen Ding, Deval Pandya

Discriminatory language and biases are often present in hate speech during conversations, which usually lead to negative impacts on targeted groups such as those based on race, gender, and religion.

Fairness in Machine Learning meets with Equity in Healthcare

no code implementations11 May 2023 Shaina Raza, Parisa Osivand Pour, Syed Raza Bashir

With the growing utilization of machine learning in healthcare, there is increasing potential to enhance healthcare outcomes.

Fairness

Auditing ICU Readmission Rates in an Clinical Database: An Analysis of Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes

no code implementations12 Apr 2023 Shaina Raza

This study presents a machine learning (ML) pipeline for clinical data classification in the context of a 30-day readmission problem, along with a fairness audit on subgroups based on sensitive attributes.

Fairness

Connecting Fairness in Machine Learning with Public Health Equity

no code implementations8 Apr 2023 Shaina Raza

Machine learning (ML) has become a critical tool in public health, offering the potential to improve population health, diagnosis, treatment selection, and health system efficiency.

Fairness

Leveraging Foundation Models for Clinical Text Analysis

no code implementations20 Mar 2023 Shaina Raza, Syed Raza Bashir

Infectious diseases are a significant public health concern globally, and extracting relevant information from scientific literature can facilitate the development of effective prevention and treatment strategies.

Dbias: Detecting biases and ensuring Fairness in news articles

no code implementations11 Aug 2022 Shaina Raza, Deepak John Reji, Chen Ding

Because of the increasing use of data-centric systems and algorithms in machine learning, the topic of fairness is receiving a lot of attention in the academic and broader literature.

Fairness

BERT4Loc: BERT for Location -- POI Recommender System

no code implementations2 Aug 2022 Syed Raza Bashir, Shaina Raza, Vojislav Misic

Our model combines location information and user preferences to provide more relevant recommendations compared to models that predict the next POI in a sequence.

Recommendation Systems

A Biomedical Pipeline to Detect Clinical and Non-Clinical Named Entities

no code implementations2 Jul 2022 Shaina Raza, Brian Schwartz

There are a few challenges related to the task of biomedical named entity recognition, which are: the existing methods consider a fewer number of biomedical entities (e. g., disease, symptom, proteins, genes); and these methods do not consider the social determinants of health (age, gender, employment, race), which are the non-medical factors related to patients' health.

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +1

A Machine Learning Model for Predicting, Diagnosing, and Mitigating Health Disparities in Hospital Readmission

no code implementations13 Jun 2022 Shaina Raza

In this paper, we propose a machine learning pipeline capable of making predictions as well as detecting and mitigating biases in the data and model predictions.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Fairness +1

A COVID-19 Search Engine (CO-SE) with Transformer-based Architecture

no code implementations7 Jun 2022 Shaina Raza

This problem motivates us to propose the design of the COVID-19 Search Engine (CO-SE), which is an algorithmic system that finds relevant documents for each query (asked by a user) and answers complex questions by searching a large corpus of publications.

News Recommender System: A review of recent progress, challenges, and opportunities

no code implementations10 Sep 2020 Shaina Raza, Chen Ding

Nowadays, more and more news readers tend to read news online where they have access to millions of news articles from multiple sources.

News Recommendation Recommendation Systems

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