Publications

This section contains publications published by ISI over the past several decades.

2024

Aggregation Artifacts in Subjective Tasks Collapse Large Language Models' Posteriors

Georgios Chochlakis, Alexandros Potamianos, Kristina Lerman, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.13776,  2024

Measuring the Echo-Chamber Phenomenon Through Exposure Bias

Nathan Bartley, Keith Burghardt, Kristina Lerman
Social Network Analysis and Mining Applications in Healthcare and Anomaly …,  2024

RTs!= Endorsements: Rethinking Exposure Fairness on Social Media Platforms

Nathan Bartley, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.13237,  2024

Fear and Loathing on the Frontline: Decoding the Language of Othering by Russia-Ukraine War Bloggers

Patrick Gerard, William Theisen, Tim Weninger, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.13064,  2024

Modeling Information Narrative Detection and Evolution on Telegram during the Russia-Ukraine War

Patrick Gerard, Svitlana Volkova, Louis Penafiel, Kristina Lerman, Tim Weninger
arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.07684,  2024

Larger language models don’t care how you think: Why chain-of-thought prompting fails in subjective tasks

Georgios Chochlakis, Niyantha Maruthu Pandiyan, Kristina Lerman, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.06173,  2024

Towards Safer Online Spaces: Simulating and Assessing Intervention Strategies for Eating Disorder Discussions

Louis Penafiel, Hsien-Te Kao, Isabel Erickson, David Chu, Robert McCormack, Kristina Lerman, Svitlana Volkova
arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.04043,  2024

Information Architectures: A Framework for Understanding Socio-Technical Systems

Paul E Smaldino, Adam Russell, Matthew Zefferman, Judith Donath, Jacob Foster, Douglas Guilbeault, Martin Hilbert, Elizabeth A Hobson, Kristina Lerman, Helena Miton
SocArXiv,  2024

Improving and Assessing the Fidelity of Large Language Models Alignment to Online Communities

Minh Duc Chu, Zihao He, Rebecca Dorn, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.09366,  2024

Bias Reduction in Social Networks Through Agent-Based Simulations

Nathan Bartley, Keith Burghardt, Kristina Lerman
International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation, 64-77,  2024

Feelings about bodies: Emotions on diet and fitness forums reveal gendered stereotypes and body image concerns

Cinthia Sánchez, Minh Duc Chu, Zihao He, Rebecca Dorn, Stuart Murray, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.03551,  2024

# EpiTwitter: Public Health Messaging During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Preprint)

Ashwin Shreyas Mohan_Rao, Nazanin Sabri, Siyi Guo, Louiqa Raschid, Kristina Lerman
JMIR Preprints,  2024

COMMUNITY-CROSS-INSTRUCT: Unsupervised Instruction Generation for Aligning Large Language Models to Online Communities

Zihao He, Minh Duc Chu, Rebecca Dorn, Siyi Guo, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.12074,  2024

Affective polarization and dynamics of information spread in online networks

Kristina Lerman, Dan Feldman, Zihao He, Ashwin Rao
npj Complexity 1 (1), 8,  2024

Trust and Terror: Hazards in Text Reveal Negatively Biased Credulity and Partisan Negativity Bias

Keith Burghardt, Daniel MT Fessler, Chyna Tang, Anne Pisor, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.17838,  2024

Hostile Counterspeech Drives Users From Hate Subreddits

Daniel Hickey, Matheus Schmitz, Daniel MT Fessler, Paul E Smaldino, Kristina Lerman, Goran Murić, Keith Burghardt
arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.18374,  2024

Isamasred: A public dataset tracking reddit discussions on israel-hamas conflict

Kai Chen, Zihao He, Keith Burghardt, Jingxin Zhang, Kristina Lerman
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 18 …,  2024

Discovering collective narratives shifts in online discussions

Wanying Zhao, Siyi Guo, Kristina Lerman, Yong-Yeol Ahn
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 18 …,  2024

Socio-linguistic characteristics of coordinated inauthentic accounts

Keith Burghardt, Ashwin Rao, Georgios Chochlakis, Baruah Sabyasachee, Siyi Guo, Zihao He, Andrew Rojecki, Shrikanth Narayanan, Kristina Lerman
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 18 …,  2024

Cpl-novid: Context-aware prompt-based learning for norm violation detection in online communities

Zihao He, Jonathan May, Kristina Lerman
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 18 …,  2024