1 code implementation • BigScience (ACL) 2022 • Sameera Horawalavithana, Ellyn Ayton, Shivam Sharma, Scott Howland, Megha Subramanian, Scott Vasquez, Robin Cosbey, Maria Glenski, Svitlana Volkova
Foundation models pre-trained on large corpora demonstrate significant gains across many natural language processing tasks and domains e. g., law, healthcare, education, etc.
no code implementations • INLG (ACL) 2020 • Emily Saldanha, Aparna Garimella, Svitlana Volkova
We perform multi-dimensional evaluation of model performance on mimicking both the style and linguistic differences that distinguish news of different credibility using machine translation metrics and classification models.
no code implementations • 1 Nov 2024 • Daniel Nguyen, Myke C. Cohen, Hsien-Te Kao, Grant Engberson, Louis Penafiel, Spencer Lynch, Svitlana Volkova
As human-agent teaming (HAT) research continues to grow, computational methods for modeling HAT behaviors and measuring HAT effectiveness also continue to develop.
no code implementations • 12 Sep 2024 • Patrick Gerard, Svitlana Volkova, Louis Penafiel, Kristina Lerman, Tim Weninger
Existing research, however, often fails to capture information narrative evolution, overlooking both the fluid nature of narratives and the internal mechanisms that drive their evolution.
no code implementations • 6 Sep 2024 • Louis Penafiel, Hsien-Te Kao, Isabel Erickson, David Chu, Robert McCormack, Kristina Lerman, Svitlana Volkova
We analyze the impact of various intervention strategies on conversation dynamics across four dimensions: intervention type, generative model, social media platform, and ED-related community/topic.
1 code implementation • 2 Jul 2024 • Chan Young Park, Shuyue Stella Li, Hayoung Jung, Svitlana Volkova, Tanushree Mitra, David Jurgens, Yulia Tsvetkov
The framework thus highlights the pivotal role of social norms in shaping online interactions, presenting a substantial advance in both the theory and application of social norm studies in digital spaces.
1 code implementation • 18 Jul 2023 • Sameera Horawalavithana, Ellyn Ayton, Anastasiya Usenko, Robin Cosbey, Svitlana Volkova
The ability to anticipate technical expertise and capability evolution trends globally is essential for national and global security, especially in safety-critical domains like nuclear nonproliferation (NN) and rapidly emerging fields like artificial intelligence (AI).
1 code implementation • 14 Apr 2022 • Sameera Horawalavithana, Ellyn Ayton, Anastasiya Usenko, Shivam Sharma, Jasmine Eshun, Robin Cosbey, Maria Glenski, Svitlana Volkova
Machine learning models that learn from dynamic graphs face nontrivial challenges in learning and inference as both nodes and edges change over time.
1 code implementation • 15 Mar 2022 • Rishabh Joshi, Vidhisha Balachandran, Emily Saldanha, Maria Glenski, Svitlana Volkova, Yulia Tsvetkov
Keyphrase extraction aims at automatically extracting a list of "important" phrases representing the key concepts in a document.
no code implementations • EMNLP (CINLP) 2021 • Maria Glenski, Svitlana Volkova
Drawing causal conclusions from observational real-world data is a very much desired but challenging task.
no code implementations • RDSM (COLING) 2020 • Maria Glenski, Ellyn Ayton, Robin Cosbey, Dustin Arendt, Svitlana Volkova
Our analyses reveal a significant drop in performance when testing neural models on out-of-domain data and non-English languages that may be mitigated using diverse training data.
no code implementations • NAACL (SocialNLP) 2021 • Maria Glenski, Ellyn Ayton, Robin Cosbey, Dustin Arendt, Svitlana Volkova
With the increasing use of machine-learning driven algorithmic judgements, it is critical to develop models that are robust to evolving or manipulated inputs.
no code implementations • EACL 2021 • Winston Wu, Dustin Arendt, Svitlana Volkova
We evaluate neural model robustness to adversarial attacks using different types of linguistic unit perturbations {--} character and word, and propose a new method for strategic sentence-level perturbations.
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2021 • Emily Saldanha, Dustin Arendt, Svitlana Volkova
Many existing algorithms for the discovery of causal structure from observational data rely on evaluating the conditional independence relationships among features to account for the effects of confounding.
no code implementations • 1 May 2020 • Winston Wu, Dustin Arendt, Svitlana Volkova
We evaluate machine comprehension models' robustness to noise and adversarial attacks by performing novel perturbations at the character, word, and sentence level.
no code implementations • 1 Jul 2019 • Maria Glenski, Tim Weninger, Svitlana Volkova
Social media signals have been successfully used to develop large-scale predictive and anticipatory analytics.
no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Anna Rogers, Alexey Romanov, Anna Rumshisky, Svitlana Volkova, Mikhail Gronas, Alex Gribov
This paper presents RuSentiment, a new dataset for sentiment analysis of social media posts in Russian, and a new set of comprehensive annotation guidelines that are extensible to other languages.
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no code implementations • NAACL 2018 • Svitlana Volkova, Stephen Ranshous, Lawrence Phillips
We rely on this corpus to build predictive models to infer non-English languages that users speak exclusively from their English tweets.
no code implementations • ACL 2018 • Maria Glenski, Tim Weninger, Svitlana Volkova
In the age of social news, it is important to understand the types of reactions that are evoked from news sources with various levels of credibility.
no code implementations • 17 Oct 2017 • Maria Glenski, Ellyn Ayton, Dustin Arendt, Svitlana Volkova
We evaluate the predictive power of models trained on varied text and image representations extracted from tweets.
no code implementations • EMNLP 2017 • Hannah Rashkin, Eunsol Choi, Jin Yea Jang, Svitlana Volkova, Yejin Choi
We present an analytic study on the language of news media in the context of political fact-checking and fake news detection.
no code implementations • WS 2017 • Lawrence Phillips, Kyle Shaffer, Dustin Arendt, Nathan Hodas, Svitlana Volkova
Language in social media is a dynamic system, constantly evolving and adapting, with words and concepts rapidly emerging, disappearing, and changing their meaning.
no code implementations • ACL 2017 • Svitlana Volkova, Kyle Shaffer, Jin Yea Jang, Nathan Hodas
In this work we build predictive models to classify 130 thousand news posts as suspicious or verified, and predict four sub-types of suspicious news {--} satire, hoaxes, clickbait and propaganda.
no code implementations • ACL 2017 • Hannah Rashkin, Eric Bell, Yejin Choi, Svitlana Volkova
People around the globe respond to major real world events through social media.