Publications

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

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

The Peripatetic Hater: Predicting Movement Among Hate Subreddits

Daniel Hickey, Daniel MT Fessler, Kristina Lerman, Keith Burghardt
arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.17410,  2024

Large Language Models Reveal Information Operation Goals, Tactics, and Narrative Frames

Keith Burghardt, Kai Chen, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.03688,  2024

Machine Learning Insights Into Eating Disorder Twitter Communities

Hsien-Te Kao, Isabel Erickson, Minh Duc Hoang Chu, Zihao He, Kristina Lerman, Svitlana Volkova
Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing …,  2024

Somer: Multi-view user representation learning for social media

Siyi Guo, Keith Burghardt, Valeria Pantè, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05275,  2024

Evaluating resilience of urban lifelines against flooding in China using social media data

Jiale Qian, Yunyan Du, Fuyuan Liang, Jiawei Yi, Nan Wang, Wenna Tu, Sheng Huang, Tao Pei, Ting Ma, Keith Burghardt, Kristina Lerman
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 106, 104453,  2024

Analyzing urban scaling laws in the United States over 115 years

Keith Burghardt, Johannes H Uhl, Kristina Lerman, Stefan Leyk
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 23998083241240099,  2024

Dynamics of Affective Polarization: From Consensus to Partisan Divides

Buddhika Nettasinghe, Allon G Percus, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.16940,  2024

Don't Blame the Data, Blame the Model: Understanding Noise and Bias When Learning from Subjective Annotations

Abhishek Anand, Negar Mokhberian, Prathyusha Naresh Kumar, Anweasha Saha, Zihao He, Ashwin Rao, Fred Morstatter, Kristina Lerman
arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.04085,  2024