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Grounds for Trust. Essential Epistemic Opacity and Computational Reliabilism
Several philosophical issues in connection with computer simulations rely on the assumption that results of simulations are trustworthy. Examples of these include the debate... -
Fair Prediction with Disparate Impact A Study of Bias in Recidivism Predictio...
Recidivism prediction instruments (RPIs) provide decision-makers with an assessment of the likelihood that a criminal defendant will reoffend at a future point in time.... -
Solving the Black Box Problem. A Normative Framework for Explainable Artifici...
Many of the computing systems programmed using Machine Learning are opaque: it is difficult to know why they do what they do or how they work. Explainable Artificial... -
Estimating countries’ peace index through the lens of the world news as monit...
Peacefulness is a principal dimension of well-being, and its measurement has lately drawn the attention of researchers and policy-makers. During the last years, novel digital...-
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Measuring What Counts The case of Rumour Stance Classification
Stance classification can be a powerful tool for understanding whether and which users believe in online rumours. The task aims to automatically predict the stance of replies...-
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STS-EPR: Modelling individual mobility considering the spatial, temporal, and...
Modelling human mobility is crucial in several scientific areas, from urban planning to epidemic modeling, traffic forecasting, and what-if analysis. On the one hand, existing... -
Toward Accountable Discrimination Aware Data Mining
"Big Data" and data-mined inferences are affecting more and more of our lives, and concerns about their possible discriminatory effects are growing. Methods for... -
Fairer machine learning in the real world
Mitigating discrimination without collecting sensitive data Decisions based on algorithmic, machine learning models can be unfair, reproducing biases in historical data used... -
Mobility data sharing: application potential and ethical issues webinar
4th SoBigData++ Awareness Panel Webinar Programme Decentralized anonymization of mobility data Speaker: Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)... -
Why Are Learned Indexes So Effective
A recent trend in algorithm design consists of augmenting classic data structures with machine learning models, which are better suited to reveal and exploit patterns and trends... -
Machine Learning Explainability Through Comprehensible Decision Trees
The role of decisions made by machine learning algorithms in our lives is ever increasing. In reaction to this phenomenon, the European General Data Protection Regulation... -
Algorithmic Decision Making Based on Machine Learning from Big Data
Decision-making assisted by algorithms developed by machine learning is increasingly determining our lives. Unfortunately, full opacity about the process is the norm. Would... -
Predicting and Explaining Privacy Risk Exposure in Mobility Data
Mobility data is a proxy of different social dynamics and its analysis enables a wide range of user services. Unfortunately, mobility data are very sensitive because the... -
Heterogeneous Document Embeddings for Cross-Lingual Text Classification
Funnelling (Fun) is a method for cross-lingual text classification (CLC) based on a two-tier ensemble for heterogeneous transfer learning. In Fun, 1st-tier classifiers, each...-
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A decade of social bot detection
Bots increasingly tamper with political elections and economic discussions. Tracing trends in detection strategies and key suggestions on how to win the fight.-
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How the machine thinks. Understanding opacity in machine learning algorithms
This article considers the issue of opacity as a problem for socially consequential mechanisms of classification and ranking, such as spam filters, credit card fraud... -
Seeing without knowing. Limitations of transparency and its application to al...
Models for understanding and holding systems accountable have long rested upon ideals and logics of transparency. Being able to see a system is sometimes equated with being able... -
Geo-semantic-parsing AI-powered geoparsing by traversing semantic knowledge g...
Online social networks convey rich information about geospatial facets of reality. However in most cases, geographic information is not explicit and structured, thus... -
Towards better social crisis data with HERMES Hybrid sensing for EmeRgency Ma...
People involved in mass emergencies increasingly publish information-rich contents in Online Social Networks (OSNs), thus acting as a distributed and resilient network of... -
Interaction Strength Analysis to Model Retweet Cascade Graphs
Tracking information diffusion is a non-trivial task and it has been widely studied across different domains and platforms. The advent of social media has led to even more...
