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The massive popularity of online social media provides a unique opportunity for researchers to study the linguistic characteristics and patterns of user's interactions. In this paper, we provide an in-depth characterization of language…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Pantelis Vikatos , Johnnatan Messias , Manoel Miranda , Fabricio Benevenuto

We train word-emoji embeddings on large scale messaging data obtained from the Jodel online social network. Our data set contains more than 40 million sentences, of which 11 million sentences are annotated with a subset of the Unicode 13.0…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Jens Helge Reelfs , Oliver Hohlfeld , Markus Strohmaier , Niklas Henckell

The movie recommender system typically leverages user feedback to provide personalized recommendations that align with user preferences and increase business revenue. This study investigates the impact of gender stereotypes on such systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Falguni Roy , Yiduo Shen , Na Zhao , Xiaofeng Ding , Md. Omar Faruk

Sentiment tasks such as hate speech detection and sentiment analysis, especially when performed on languages other than English, are often low-resource. In this study, we exploit the emotional information encoded in emojis to enhance the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Susann Boy , Dana Ruiter , Dietrich Klakow

With the increasing usage of smartphones, there is a corresponding increase in the phone metadata generated by individuals using these devices. Managing the privacy of personal information on these devices can be a complex task. Recent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Isha Ghosh , Vivek K. Singh

Gender bias is highly impacting natural language processing applications. Word embeddings have clearly been proven both to keep and amplify gender biases that are present in current data sources. Recently, contextualized word embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Christine Basta , Marta R. Costa-jussà , Noe Casas

This paper investigates biases of Large Language Models (LLMs) through the lens of grammatical gender. Drawing inspiration from seminal works in psycholinguistics, particularly the study of gender's influence on language perception, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Viktor Mihaylov , Aleksandar Shtedritski

Here, I ask what we can learn about how gender affects how people engage with robots. I review 46 empirical studies of social robots, published 2018 or earlier, which report on the gender of their participants or the perceived or intended…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-04 David Gray Widder

The increasing use of dialogue agents makes it extremely desirable for them to understand and acknowledge the implied emotions to respond like humans with empathy. Chatbots using traditional techniques analyze emotions based on the context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Akhilesh Ravi , Amit Yadav , Jainish Chauhan , Jatin Dholakia , Naman Jain , Mayank Singh

Gender-inclusive language is often used with the aim of ensuring that all individuals, regardless of gender, can be associated with certain concepts. While psycholinguistic studies have examined its effects in relation to human cognition,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Marion Bartl , Thomas Brendan Murphy , Susan Leavy

Mobile sensing plays a crucial role in generating digital traces to understand human daily lives. However, studying behaviours like mood or sleep quality in smartphone users requires carefully designed mobile sensing strategies such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Nan Gao , Zhuolei Yu , Yue Xu , Chun Yu , Yuntao Wang , Flora D. Salim , Yuanchun Shi

Gender bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing has garnered significant attention due to its potential impact on societal perceptions and biases. This research paper aims to analyze gender bias in Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Vishesh Thakur

Smartphone users often regret aspects of their phone use, especially social media use. However, pinpointing specific ways in which the design of an interface contributes to regrettable use can be challenging due to the complexity of social…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Longjie Guo , Yue Fu , Xiran Lin , Xuhai "Orson" Xu , Yung-Ju Chang , Alexis Hiniker

In recent years, various methods have been proposed to evaluate gender bias in large language models (LLMs). A key challenge lies in the transferability of bias measurement methods initially developed for the English language when applied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Kristin Gnadt , David Thulke , Simone Kopeinik , Ralf Schlüter

Language Models have ushered a new age of AI gaining traction within the NLP community as well as amongst the general population. AI's ability to make predictions, generations and its applications in sensitive decision-making scenarios,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Ananya Malik

In the burgeoning realm of cryptocurrency, social media platforms like Twitter have become pivotal in influencing market trends and investor sentiments. In our study, we leverage GPT-4 and a fine-tuned transformer-based BERT model for a…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-05-07 Xiaorui Zuo , Yao-Tsung Chen , Wolfgang Karl Härdle

The purpose of this study is to find evidence for supporting the hypothesis that language is the mirror of our thinking, our prejudices and cultural stereotypes. In this analysis, a questionnaire was administered to 537 people. The answers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-15 P. Cutugno , D. Chiarella , R. Lucentini , L. Marconi , G. Morgavi

Text-to-image models, which can generate high-quality images based on textual input, have recently enabled various content-creation tools. Despite significantly affecting a wide range of downstream applications, the distributions of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yanzhe Zhang , Lu Jiang , Greg Turk , Diyi Yang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across tasks involving both visual and textual modalities. However, growing concerns remain about their potential to encode and amplify gender bias, particularly in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yue Xu , Wenjie Wang

The Gender Identification (GI) problem is concerned with determining the gender of the author from a given text. It has numerous applications in different fields like forensics, literature, security, marketing, trade, etc. Due to its…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Sultan Ahmed , Salman Rakin , Khadija Urmi , Chandan Kumar Nag , Md. Mostofa Akbar