no code implementations • 29 Mar 2024 • Ahmad Diab, Rr. Nefriana, Yu-Ru Lin
Online discussions frequently involve conspiracy theories, which can contribute to the proliferation of belief in them.
no code implementations • 29 Dec 2023 • Yongsu Ahn, Yu-Ru Lin
Despite the benefits of personalizing items and information tailored to users' needs, it has been found that recommender systems tend to introduce biases that favor popular items or certain categories of items, and dominant user groups.
no code implementations • 18 Nov 2023 • Yongsu Ahn, Muheng Yan, Yu-Ru Lin, Zian Wang
The escalating food insecurity in Africa, caused by factors such as war, climate change, and poverty, demonstrates the critical need for advanced early warning systems.
1 code implementation • 26 Jul 2023 • Xian Teng, Yongsu Ahn, Yu-Ru Lin
Through an expert interview and a controlled user experiment, our qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate that the proposed "de-paradox" workflow and the designed visual analytic system are effective in helping human users to identify and understand spurious associations, as well as to make accountable causal decisions.
no code implementations • 16 Mar 2023 • Yongsu Ahn, Muheng Yan, Yu-Ru Lin, Wen-Ting Chung, Rebecca Hwa
With the rise of AI and data mining techniques, group profiling and group-level analysis have been increasingly used in many domains including policy making and direct marketing.
no code implementations • 16 Mar 2023 • Yongsu Ahn, Yu-Ru Lin, Panpan Xu, Zeng Dai
Classification models learn to generalize the associations between data samples and their target classes.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2021 • Snehalkumar, S. Gaikwad, Shankar Iyer, Dalton Lunga, Yu-Ru Lin
Despite these growing perils, there remains a notable paucity of data science research to scientifically inform equitable public policy decisions for improving the livelihood of at-risk populations.
1 code implementation • COLING 2020 • Meiqi Guo, Rebecca Hwa, Yu-Ru Lin, Wen-Ting Chung
We investigate the impact of political ideology biases in training data.
1 code implementation • 1 Aug 2019 • Yongsu Ahn, Yu-Ru Lin
Data-driven decision making related to individuals has become increasingly pervasive, but the issue concerning the potential discrimination has been raised by recent studies.
1 code implementation • 12 May 2019 • Ali Mert Ertugrul, Yu-Ru Lin, Tugba Taskaya-Temizel
Motivated by these observations, we propose a novel spatio-temporal predictive model for opioid overdose forecasting by leveraging the spatio-temporal patterns of crime incidents.
4 code implementations • 16 Nov 2011 • Chun-Yuen Teng, Yu-Ru Lin, Lada A. Adamic
The recording and sharing of cooking recipes, a human activity dating back thousands of years, naturally became an early and prominent social use of the web.
Social and Information Networks Physics and Society H.2.8