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08/18/2023
Disparity, Inequality, and Accuracy Tradeoffs in Graph Neural Networks for Node Classification
Graph neural networks (GNNs) are increasingly used in critical human app...
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05/16/2023
Fairness and Diversity in Information Access Systems
Among the seven key requirements to achieve trustworthy AI proposed by t...
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12/01/2022
Assessing the Impact of Music Recommendation Diversity on Listeners: A Longitudinal Study
We present the results of a 12-week longitudinal user study wherein the ...
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05/16/2022
SciLander: Mapping the Scientific News Landscape
The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the spread of misinformation on social ...
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04/21/2022
Cross-Lingual Query-Based Summarization of Crisis-Related Social Media: An Abstractive Approach Using Transformers
Relevant and timely information collected from social media during crise...
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03/24/2022
Human Response to an AI-Based Decision Support System: A User Study on the Effects of Accuracy and Bias
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used to build Decision Supp...
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02/01/2022
Rewiring What-to-Watch-Next Recommendations to Reduce Radicalization Pathways
Recommender systems typically suggest to users content similar to what t...
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01/26/2022
A Comparative User Study of Human Predictions in Algorithm-Supported Recidivism Risk Assessment
In this paper, we study the effects of using an algorithm-based risk ass...
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01/25/2022
Diversity in the Music Listening Experience: Insights from Focus Group Interviews
Music listening in today's digital spaces is highly characterized by the...
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10/25/2021
SciClops: Detecting and Contextualizing Scientific Claims for Assisting Manual Fact-Checking
This paper describes SciClops, a method to help combat online scientific...
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03/16/2021
Predicting Early Dropout: Calibration and Algorithmic Fairness Considerations
In this work, the problem of predicting dropout risk in undergraduate st...
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01/28/2021
Perceptions of Diversity in Electronic Music: the Impact of Listener, Artist, and Track Characteristics
Shared practices to assess the diversity of retrieval system results are...
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12/23/2020
A Note on the Significance Adjustment for FA*IR with Two Protected Groups
In this report we provide an improvement of the significance adjustment ...
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12/10/2020
Social Media Alerts can Improve, but not Replace Hydrological Models for Forecasting Floods
Social media can be used for disaster risk reduction as a complement to ...
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09/03/2020
Exploring Artist Gender Bias in Music Recommendation
Music Recommender Systems (mRS) are designed to give personalised and me...
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08/27/2020
SciLens News Platform: A System for Real-Time Evaluation of News Articles
We demonstrate the SciLens News Platform, a novel system for evaluating ...
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07/29/2020
Intersectional Affirmative Action Policies for Top-k Candidates Selection
We study the problem of selecting the top-k candidates from a pool of ap...
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07/07/2020
Modeling and Mitigating Human Annotation Errors to Design Efficient Stream Processing Systems with Human-in-the-loop Machine Learning
High-quality human annotations are necessary for creating effective mach...
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07/02/2020
Towards Data-Driven Affirmative Action Policies under Uncertainty
In this paper, we study university admissions under a centralized system...
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04/15/2020
Poisoning Attacks on Algorithmic Fairness
Research in adversarial machine learning has shown how the performance o...
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03/10/2020
Addressing multiple metrics of group fairness in data-driven decision making
The Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning (FAT-...
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02/16/2020
Algorithms for Hiring and Outsourcing in the Online Labor Market
Although freelancing work has grown substantially in recent years, in pa...
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01/23/2020
Uneven Coverage of Natural Disasters in Wikipedia: the Case of Flood
The usage of non-authoritative data for disaster management presents the...
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12/05/2019
EviDense: a Graph-based Method for Finding Unique High-impact Events with Succinct Keyword-based Descriptions
Despite the significant efforts made by the research community in recent...
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10/17/2019
Conflict and Cooperation: AI Research and Development in terms of the Economy of Conventions
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its relation with societies is increasi...
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08/18/2019
Modeling Islamist Extremist Communications on Social Media using Contextual Dimensions: Religion, Ideology, and Hate
Terror attacks have been linked in part to online extremist content. Alt...
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07/16/2019
Modeling Human Annotation Errors to Design Bias-Aware Systems for Social Stream Processing
High-quality human annotations are necessary to create effective machine...
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05/27/2019
FairSearch: A Tool For Fairness in Ranked Search Results
Ranked search results and recommendations have become the main mechanism...
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05/23/2019
Affirmative Action Policies for Top-k Candidates Selection, With an Application to the Design of Policies for University Admissions
We consider the problem of designing affirmative action policies for sel...
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03/13/2019
SciLens: Evaluating the Quality of Scientific News Articles Using Social Media and Scientific Literature Indicators
This paper describes, develops, and validates SciLens, a method to evalu...
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07/17/2018
To Post or Not to Post: Using Online Trends to Predict Popularity of Offline Content
Predicting the popularity of online content has attracted much attention...
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06/07/2018
Assessing the impact of machine intelligence on human behaviour: an interdisciplinary endeavour
This document contains the outcome of the first Human behaviour and mach...
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05/22/2018
Reducing Disparate Exposure in Ranking: A Learning To Rank Approach
In this paper we consider a ranking problem in which we would like to or...
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04/16/2018
The Effect of Extremist Violence on Hateful Speech Online
User-generated content online is shaped by many factors, including endog...
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05/21/2017
The Do's and Don'ts for CNN-based Face Verification
While the research community appears to have developed a consensus on th...
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01/09/2017
Son of Zorn's Lemma: Targeted Style Transfer Using Instance-aware Semantic Segmentation
Style transfer is an important task in which the style of a source image...
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11/06/2016
Deep Convolutional Neural Network Features and the Original Image
Face recognition algorithms based on deep convolutional neural networks ...
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11/04/2016
UMDFaces: An Annotated Face Dataset for Training Deep Networks
Recent progress in face detection (including keypoint detection), and re...
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10/06/2016
A Robust Framework for Classifying Evolving Document Streams in an Expert-Machine-Crowd Setting
An emerging challenge in the online classification of social media data ...
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05/31/2016
Biconvex Relaxation for Semidefinite Programming in Computer Vision
Semidefinite programming is an indispensable tool in computer vision, bu...
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05/19/2016
Twitter as a Lifeline: Human-annotated Twitter Corpora for NLP of Crisis-related Messages
Microblogging platforms such as Twitter provide active communication cha...
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04/19/2016