Publications
This section contains publications published by ISI over the past several decades.
2024
In-Group Love, Out-Group Hate: A Framework to Measure Affective Polarization via Contentious Online Discussions
Buddhika Nettasinghe, Ashwin Rao, Bohan Jiang, Allon Percus, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14414, 2024
Universal Patterns in the Long-term Growth of Urban Infrastructure in US Cities from 1900 to 2015
Keith Burghardt, Johannes H Uhl, Kristina Lerman, Stefan Leyk
arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.13181, 2024
Harmful speech detection by language models exhibits gender-queer dialect bias
Rebecca Dorn, Lee Kezar, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman
Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms …, 2024
Estimating Causal Effects of Text Interventions Leveraging LLMs
Siyi Guo, Myrl G Marmarelis, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.21474, 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