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Fall 2024
This thesis presents a comprehensive exploration of social biases embedded within texts and Natural Language Processing (NLP) models. It develops innovative algorithms to evaluate and mitigate these biases, thereby enhancing the fairness and effectiveness of NLP applications. The initial phase of...
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Fall 2017
In recent years fake news has become a more serious problem. This is mainly due to the popularity of social networks, search engines and news ag- gregators that propagate fake news. Classifying news as fake is a hard problem. However it is possible to distinguish between fake and real news, by...