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The spectacular expansion of the Internet has led to the development of a new research problem in the field of natural language processing: automatic toxic comment detection, since many countries prohibit hate speech in public media. There…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Ashwin Geet D'Sa , Irina Illina , Dominique Fohr

Identifying controversial topics is not only interesting from a social point of view, it also enables the application of methods to avoid the information segregation, creating better discussion contexts and reaching agreements in the best…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Juan Manuel Ortiz de Zarate , Esteban Feuerstein

Wikipedia, an open collaborative website, can be edited by anyone, even anonymously, thus becoming victim to ill-intentioned changes. Therefore, ranking Wikipedia authors by calculating impact measures based on the edit history can help to…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Sebastian Neef

In this paper, we present a dataset of inter-language knowledge propagation in Wikipedia. Covering the entire 309 language editions and 33M articles, the dataset aims to track the full propagation history of Wikipedia concepts, and allow…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Roldolfo Valentim , Giovanni Comarela , Souneil Park , Diego Saez-Trumper

How has Wikipedia activity changed for articles with content similar to ChatGPT following its introduction? We estimate the impact using differences-in-differences models, with dissimilar Wikipedia articles as a baseline for comparison, to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Liang Lyu , James Siderius , Hannah Li , Daron Acemoglu , Daniel Huttenlocher , Asuman Ozdaglar

The origin of non-Poissonian or bursty temporal patterns observed in various datasets for human social dynamics has been extensively studied, yet its understanding still remains incomplete. Considering the fact that humans are social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-04 Jeehye Choi , Takayuki Hiraoka , Hang-Hyun Jo

Collaborative edition is achieved by distinct sites that work independently on (a copy of) a shared document. Conflicts may arise during this process and must be solved by the collaborative editor. In pure Peer to Peer collaborative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2010-01-04 Stéphane Martin , Denis Lugiez

Lack of diverse perspectives causes neutrality bias in Wikipedia content leading to millions of worldwide readers getting exposed by potentially inaccurate information. Hence, neutrality bias detection and mitigation is a critical problem.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ankita Maity , Anubhav Sharma , Rudra Dhar , Tushar Abhishek , Manish Gupta , Vasudeva Varma

Offensive behaviour has become pervasive in the Internet community. Individuals take the advantage of anonymity in the cyber world and indulge in offensive communications which they may not consider in the real life. Governments, online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Vyshnav M T , Sachin Kumar S , Soman K P

Knowledge editing methods (KEs) can update language models' obsolete or inaccurate knowledge learned from pre-training. However, KEs can be used for malicious applications, e.g., inserting misinformation and toxic content. Knowing whether a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Paul Youssef , Zhixue Zhao , Christin Seifert , Jörg Schlötterer

When conflicts escalate, is it due to what is said or how it is said? In the conflict literature, two theoretical approaches take opposing views: one focuses on the content of the disagreement, while the other focuses on how it is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Priya Ronald D'Costa , Evan Rowbotham , Xinlan Emily Hu

Hyperlinks constitute the backbone of the Web; they enable user navigation, information discovery, content ranking, and many other crucial services on the Internet. In particular, hyperlinks found within Wikipedia allow the readers to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Martin Gerlach , Marshall Miller , Rita Ho , Kosta Harlan , Djellel Difallah

The digital information landscape has introduced a new dimension to understanding how we collectively react to new information and preserve it at the societal level. This, together with the emergence of platforms such as Wikipedia, has…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Patrick Gildersleve , Renaud Lambiotte , Taha Yasseri

Now-a-days, derogatory comments are often made by one another, not only in offline environment but also immensely in online environments like social networking websites and online communities. So, an Identification combined with Prevention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Navoneel Chakrabarty

Users organize themselves into communities on web platforms. These communities can interact with one another, often leading to conflicts and toxic interactions. However, little is known about the mechanisms of interactions between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Srijan Kumar , William L. Hamilton , Jure Leskovec , Dan Jurafsky

The rise of AI-generated content in popular information sources raises significant concerns about accountability, accuracy, and bias amplification. Beyond directly impacting consumers, the widespread presence of this content poses questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Creston Brooks , Samuel Eggert , Denis Peskoff

In this paper, we model the document revision detection problem as a minimum cost branching problem that relies on computing document distances. Furthermore, we propose two new document distance measures, word vector-based Dynamic Time…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Xiaofeng Zhu , Diego Klabjan , Patrick Bless

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic was a historic social disruption with significant consequences felt around the globe. Wikipedia is a freely-available, peer-produced encyclopedia with a remarkable ability to create and revise content following…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Brian C. Keegan , Chenhao Tan

A significant proportion of queries to large language models ask them to edit user-provided text, rather than generate new text from scratch. While previous work focuses on detecting fully AI-generated text, we demonstrate that AI-edited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Katherine Thai , Bradley Emi , Elyas Masrour , Mohit Iyyer

Keeping large language models factually up-to-date is crucial for deployment, yet costly retraining remains a challenge. Knowledge editing offers a promising alternative, but methods are only tested on small-scale or synthetic edit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Lukas Thede , Karsten Roth , Matthias Bethge , Zeynep Akata , Tom Hartvigsen