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Injustices in text are often subtle since implicit biases or stereotypes frequently operate unconsciously due to the pervasive nature of prejudice in society. This makes automated detection of injustices more challenging which leads to them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Kenya Andrews , Lamogha Chiazor

We propose the use of Agent Based Models (ABMs) inside a reinforcement learning framework in order to better understand the relationship between automated decision making tools, fairness-inspired statistical constraints, and the social…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Efrén Cruz Cortés , Debashis Ghosh

The pervasive spread of misinformation and disinformation in social media underscores the critical importance of detecting media bias. While robust Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as foundational tools for bias prediction,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Luyang Lin , Lingzhi Wang , Jinsong Guo , Kam-Fai Wong

Detecting online toxicity has always been a challenge due to its inherent subjectivity. Factors such as the context, geography, socio-political climate, and background of the producers and consumers of the posts play a crucial role in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Tanmay Garg , Sarah Masud , Tharun Suresh , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Search bias analysis is getting more attention in recent years since search results could affect In this work, we aim to establish an automated model for evaluating ideological bias in online news articles. The dataset is composed of news…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Gizem Gezici

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled multi-agent systems that simulate real-world interactions with near-human reasoning. While previous studies have extensively examined biases related to protected attributes such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Min Choi , Keonwoo Kim , Sungwon Chae , Sangyeob Baek

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong symbolic and compositional reasoning, yet they struggle with time series question answering as the data is typically transformed into an LLM-compatible modality, e.g., serialized text, plotted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Penghang Liu , Elizabeth Fons , Annita Vapsi , Mohsen Ghassemi , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Daniel Borrajo , Vamsi K. Potluru , Manuela Veloso

Informational bias is bias conveyed through sentences or clauses that provide tangential, speculative or background information that can sway readers' opinions towards entities. By nature, informational bias is context-dependent, but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Esther van den Berg , Katja Markert

This paper focuses on a dynamic aspect of responsible autonomy, namely, to make intelligent agents be responsible at run time. That is, it considers settings where decision making by agents impinges upon the outcomes perceived by other…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Munindar P. Singh

In recent years, social media companies have grappled with defining and enforcing content moderation policies surrounding political content on their platforms, due in part to concerns about political bias, disinformation, and polarization.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jacob Thebault-Spieker , Sukrit Venkatagiri , Naomi Mine , Kurt Luther

Media bias detection requires comprehensive integration of information derived from multiple news sources. Sentence-level political bias detection in news is no exception, and has proven to be a challenging task that requires an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Iffat Maab , Edison Marrese-Taylor , Yutaka Matsuo

The desire and ability to seek new information strategically are fundamental to human learning but often overlooked in current language agent evaluation. We analyze a popular web shopping task designed to test language agents' ability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Sanxing Chen , Sam Wiseman , Bhuwan Dhingra

Media has a substantial impact on the public perception of events. A one-sided or polarizing perspective on any topic is usually described as media bias. One of the ways how bias in news articles can be introduced is by altering word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Timo Spinde , Jan-David Krieger , Terry Ruas , Jelena Mitrović , Franz Götz-Hahn , Akiko Aizawa , Bela Gipp

I develop a rather simple agent-based model to capture a co-evolution of opinion formation, political decision making and economic outcomes. I use this model to study how societies form opinions if their members have opposing interests.…

General Economics · Economics 2021-11-19 Patrick Mellacher

Multi-agent systems, which consist of multiple AI models interacting within a shared environment, are increasingly used for persona-based interactions. However, if not carefully designed, these systems can reinforce implicit biases in large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Imran Mirza , Cole Huang , Ishwara Vasista , Rohan Patil , Asli Akalin , Sean O'Brien , Kevin Zhu

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve, they are increasingly being employed in numerous studies to simulate societies and execute diverse social tasks. However, LLMs are susceptible to societal biases due to their exposure to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Angana Borah , Rada Mihalcea

People have information needs of varying complexity, which can be solved by an intelligent agent able to answer questions formulated in a proper way, eventually considering user context and preferences. In a scenario in which the user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Claudio Greco , Alessandro Suglia , Pierpaolo Basile , Gaetano Rossiello , Giovanni Semeraro

Recent advancements in the field of AI agents have impacted the way we work, enabling greater automation and collaboration between humans and agents. In the data visualization field, multi-agent systems can be useful for employing agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Anton Wolter , Georgios Vidalakis , Michael Yu , Ankit Grover , Vaishali Dhanoa

The news media shape public opinion, and often, the visual bias they contain is evident for human observers. This bias can be inferred from how different media sources portray different subjects or topics. In this paper, we model visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Christopher Thomas , Adriana Kovashka

We consider information networks whereby multiple biased-information-providers (BIPs), e.g., media outlets/social network users/sensors, share reports of events with rational-information-consumers (RICs). Making the reasonable abstraction…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-28 H. Kesavareddigari , A. Eryilmaz