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Yong-Yeol Ahn

4 accepted papers

2025

Cognitive Linguistic Identity Fusion Score (CLIFS): A Scalable Cognition‐Informed Approach to Quantifying Identity Fusion from Text

EMNLP 2025

Quantifying *identity fusion*—the psychological merging of self with another entity or abstract target (e.g., a religious group, political party, ideology, value, brand, belief, etc.)—is vital for understanding a wide range of group‐based human behaviors. We introduce the Cognitive Linguistic Identi

2025

Implicit degree bias in the link prediction task

ICML 2025poster

Link prediction---a task of distinguishing actual hidden edges from random unconnected node pairs---is one of the quintessential tasks in graph machine learning. Despite being widely accepted as a universal benchmark and a downstream task for representation learning, the link prediction benchmark's…

2021

Predicting Anti-Asian Hateful Users on Twitter during COVID-19

EMNLP 2021finding

We investigate predictors of anti-Asian hate among Twitter users throughout COVID-19. With the rise of xenophobia and polarization that has accompanied widespread social media usage in many nations, online hate has become a major social issue, attracting many researchers. Here, we apply natural lang…

2021

Residual2Vec: Debiasing graph embedding with random graphs

NeurIPS 2021poster

Graph embedding maps a graph into a convenient vector-space representation for graph analysis and machine learning applications. Many graph embedding methods hinge on a sampling of context nodes based on random walks. However, random walks can be a biased sampler due to the structural properties of…