Research
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Working papers
Total Simulated Survey Error: Designing and Diagnosing Survey Responses from Large Language Models [PDF]
Indira Sen, Georg Ahnert, Leah von der Heyde, Jana Lasser, Bernd Weiß, Markus Strohmaier
arXiv preprint, 2026
Connecting natural language processing and survey methodology: Potentials, challenges, and open questions
Indira Sen, Bolei Ma, Georg Ahnert, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Tobias Holtdirk, Frauke Kreuter, Markus Strohmaier
OSF Preprints, 2025
2026
Racial Biases in Social Media Discussions About Soccer Players [PDF]
Tobias Schumacher, Indira Sen, Esi Doda, Claudia Wagner
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
Generative AI for climate governance and acceptability-constrained policy design
Ajaykumar Manivannan, Viktoria Spaiser, Tristan JB Cann, James Evans, Jordan P Everall, Max Falkenberg, David Garcia, Weisi Guo, Rico Herzog, Ilona M Otto, Yannick Oswald, Nicolò Pagan, Max Pellert, Charlie Pilgrim, Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Indira Sen, Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets
npj Climate Action
Too Open for Opinion? Embracing Open-Endedness in Large Language Models for Social Simulation [PDF]
Bolei Ma, Yong Cao, Indira Sen, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Frauke Kreuter, Barbara Plank, Daniel Hershcovich
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
Do psychometric tests work for large language models? evaluation of tests on sexism, racism, and morality [PDF]
Jana Jung, Marlene Lutz, Indira Sen, Markus Strohmaier
Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
Neural network embeddings recover value dimensions from psychometric survey items on par with human data [PDF]
Max Pellert, Clemens M Lechner, Indira Sen, Markus Strohmaier
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL
2025
Using data from social media for computational social science research
Katrin Weller, Indira Sen
Handbook of Computational Social Science
The unseen targets of hate: A systematic review of hateful communication datasets [PDF]
Zehui Yu, Indira Sen, Dennis Assenmacher, Mattia Samory, Leon Fröhling, Christina Dahn, Debora Nozza, Claudia Wagner
Social Science Computer Review
Assessing data quality in the age of digital social research: A systematic review [PDF]
Jessica Daikeler, Leon Fröhling, Indira Sen, Lukas Birkenmaier, Tobias Gummer, Jan Schwalbach, Henning Silber, Bernd Weiß, Katrin Weller, Clemens Lechner
Social Science Computer Review
Sensitive content classification in social media: A holistic resource and evaluation [PDF]
Dimosthenis Antypas, Indira Sen, Carla Perez-Almendros, Jose Camacho-Collados, Francesco Barbieri
Workshop on Online Harms (WOAH)
The prompt makes the person (a): A systematic evaluation of sociodemographic persona prompting for large language models [PDF]
Marlene Lutz, Indira Sen, Georg Ahnert, Elisa Rogers, Markus Strohmaier
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP
Missing the Margins: A Systematic Literature Review on the Demographic Representativeness of LLMs [PDF]
Indira Sen, Marlene Lutz, Elisa Rogers, David Garcia, Markus Strohmaier
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL
Tell Me What You Know About Sexism: Expert-LLM Interaction Strategies and Co-Created Definitions for Zero-Shot Sexism Detection [PDF]
Myrthe Reuver, Indira Sen, Matteo Melis, Gabriella Lapesa
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL
Only a Little to the Left: A Theory-grounded Measure of Political Bias in Large Language Models [PDF]
Mats Faulborn, Indira Sen, Max Pellert, Andreas Spitz, David Garcia
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Robustness and confounders in the demographic alignment of llms with human perceptions of offensiveness [PDF]
Shayan Alipour, Indira Sen, Mattia Samory, Tanushree Mitra
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL
2024
The Geography of US Companies That Care About Their Employees [PDF]
Indira Sen, Sanja Scepanovic, Marios Constantinides, Daniele Quercia
Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK)
An Open Multilingual System for Scoring Readability of Wikipedia [PDF]
Mykola Trokhymovych, Indira Sen, Martin Gerlach
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
2023
A multidisciplinary lens of bias in hate speech [PDF]
Paula Reyero Lobo, Joseph Kwarteng, Mayra Russo, Miriam Fahimi, Kristen Scott, Antonio Ferrara, Indira Sen, Miriam Fernandez
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
People Make Better Edits: Measuring the Efficacy of LLM-Generated Counterfactually Augmented Data for Harmful Language Detection [PDF]
Indira Sen, Dennis Assenmacher, Mattia Samory, Isabelle Augenstein, Wil van der Aalst, Claudia Wagner
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Insider stories: analyzing internal sustainability efforts of major US companies from online reviews
Indira Sen, Daniele Quercia, Licia Capra, Matteo Montecchi, Sanja Šćepanović
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
The End of the Rehydration Era: The Problem of Sharing Harmful Twitter Research Data
Dennis Assenmacher, Indira Sen, Leon Fröhling, Claudia Wagner
Workshop on Novel Evaluation Approaches for Text Classification Systems (NEATCLasS) at ICWSM · Best Paper Award
2022
Depression at work: exploring depression in major US companies from online reviews [PDF]
Indira Sen, Daniele Quercia, Marios Constantinides, Matteo Montecchi, Licia Capra, Sanja Scepanovic, Renzo Bianchi
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW)
Counterfactually augmented data and unintended bias: The case of sexism and hate speech detection [PDF]
Indira Sen, Mattia Samory, Claudia Wagner, Isabelle Augenstein
Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL)
Visualizing internal sustainability efforts in big companies [PDF]
Chiara Ceccarini, Edyta Paulina Bogucka, Indira Sen, Marios Constantinides, Catia Prandi, Daniele Quercia
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
2021
How Does Counterfactually Augmented Data Impact Models for Social Computing Constructs? [PDF]
Indira Sen, Mattia Samory, Fabian Flöck, Claudia Wagner, Isabelle Augenstein
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
A total error framework for digital traces of human behavior on online platforms [PDF]
Indira Sen, Fabian Flöck, Katrin Weller, Bernd Weiß, Claudia Wagner
Public Opinion Quarterly
“Call me sexist, but…”: Revisiting sexism detection using psychological scales and adversarial samples [PDF]
Mattia Samory, Indira Sen, Julian Kohne, Fabian Flöck, Claudia Wagner
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
What Human Rationales Tell Us about Machine Explanations
Indira Sen, Mattia Samory, Fabian Flöck, Claudia Wagner
Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (HCI+NLP), non-archival
2020
On the reliability and validity of detecting approval of political actors in tweets [PDF]
Indira Sen, Fabian Flöck, Claudia Wagner
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
2018
Empowering first responders through automated multimodal content moderation [PDF]
Divam Gupta, Indira Sen, Niharika Sachdeva, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Arun Balaji Buduru
IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC) · Best Paper Award
Language identification and named entity recognition in hinglish code mixed tweets [PDF]
Kushagra Singh, Indira Sen, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
Student Research Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL SRW)
A Twitter corpus for Hindi-English code mixed POS tagging [PDF]
Kushagra Singh, Indira Sen, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru
International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Social Media (SocialNLP)
Worth its weight in likes: Towards detecting fake likes on instagram [PDF]
Indira Sen, Anupama Aggarwal, Shiven Mian, Siddharth Singh, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Anwitaman Datta
ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci)