Hans Hanley

Excited to have a paper accepted to the main conference #ACL2025! If you are interested in narrative/news tracking, hopefully it will be of some use to you! Details to come soon!

15.05.2025 21:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks @rossdahlke.bsky.social!

20.03.2025 00:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tracking the Takes and Trajectories of English-Language News Narratives across Trustworthy and Worrisome Websites

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Great in-depth examination of news media, bias, and information spread, by @hanshanley.bsky.social et al.
doi.org/10.48550/arX...

19.03.2025 18:51 — 👍 20    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 1

Curating and sharing high-quality datasets is the foundation of good empirical science.

@icwsm.bsky.social promotes dataset creation through a dedicated conference track published in the conference's regular proceedings.

Submit your dataset paper by Jan 15th!

www.icwsm.org/2025/submit/...

03.12.2024 14:33 — 👍 19    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

New @acm-cscw.bsky.social paper, new content moderation paradigm.

Post Guidance lets moderators prevent rule-breaking by triggering interventions as users write posts!

We implemented PG on Reddit and tested it in a massive field experiment (n=97k). It became a feature!

arxiv.org/abs/2411.16814

27.11.2024 14:20 — 👍 55    🔁 26    💬 5    📌 5

This @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social paper argues that LLM responses in big5-style tests are reliable. LLM responses across various settings (eg, languages, prompts) vary less than human responses. Yet, the external validity of these tests for LLMs remains unclear.

aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-m...

26.11.2024 18:41 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Can we detect #hatespeech at scale on social media?

To answer this, we introduce 🤬HateDay🗓️, a global hate speech dataset representative of a day on Twitter.

The answer: not really! Detection perf is low and overestimated by traditional eval methods

arxiv.org/abs/2411.15462
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26.11.2024 12:53 — 👍 31    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 7

UW campus, Drumheller Fountain and Rainier Vista.

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I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at UW!

I’m looking for students passionate about developing new *social media algorithms*, both broadly and within the scope of this NSF grant: tinyurl.com/395yfphd

More info: faculty.washington.edu/msaveski/

cc @uwischool.bsky.social

13.11.2024 09:10 — 👍 31    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 2

New paper: Do social media algorithms shape affective polarization?

We ran a field experiment on X/Twitter (N=1,256) using LLMs to rerank content in real-time, adjusting exposure to polarizing posts. Result: Algorithmic ranking impacts feelings toward the political outgroup! 🧵⬇️

25.11.2024 20:32 — 👍 818    🔁 218    💬 33    📌 52

Shining a Light on Emerging Talent: Rising Stars in Data Science 2024 Recap

Super humbled to have some of latest research featured here! datascience.stanford.edu/news/shining...

21.11.2024 20:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Doctor of Philosophy in Information Studies (PhD) - College of Information (INFO) This doctoral program prepares students to address the hardest social and technical problems of today and tomorrow.

📣 I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at the University of Maryland College of Information.
Consider applying if you're interested in language, society/politics, and computers!

Deadline Dec 3: ischool.umd.edu/academics/ph...

And pls share with anyone who may be interested!

29.10.2024 17:05 — 👍 26    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

The Republican Party After Trump. National Conservatism and The Rejection of Globalism National Conservatives seeks to promote national industry, isolationism, the family, and tradition.

open.substack.com/pub/themargi...

21.11.2024 01:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Missed some – or all – of our papers at #EMNLP2024?

It's not too late to catch up using this handy list from the Stanford AI Lab blog:

ai.stanford.edu/blog/emnlp-2...

18.11.2024 16:29 — 👍 24    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at Princeton to work on Comp Social Science/Societal Impact of GenAI/GenAI for SocSci

I wrote a bit on research flavor & interests here: manoelhortaribeiro.github.io/advising

Deadline: December 15th www.cs.princeton.edu/grad#prospec...

Please boost!

14.11.2024 16:35 — 👍 50    🔁 35    💬 2    📌 3