arXiv:2609.16498v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Research data repositories are essential infrastructure for scientific inquiry and for ensuring that datasets follow FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Inte...
By Daniel Ebanks, Devika Jain
Research data repositories are essential infrastructure for scientific inquiry and for ensuring that datasets follow FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles. However, repos...
arXiv:2608.30107v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Understanding which countries are represented in NLP datasets is essential for identifying gaps, targeting data collection, measuring progress, and i...
By Joan Nwatu, Tsedeniya Solomon Amare, Longju Bai, Bontu Fufa Balcha, Zayd Bashir, Angana Borah, Zara Burzo, Yubin Choi, Naihao Deng, Samika Gupta, Michel Faloughi, Claude Kwizera, Ziqiao Ma, Cynthia Yacel Fuertes Panizo, Ellie Seehorn, Hui Shen, Jiayi Tang, Zesen Zhao, Boyuan Zheng, Rada Mihalcea
Understanding which countries are represented in NLP datasets is essential for identifying gaps, targeting data collection, measuring progress, and informing AI policy. However, geographic metadata is...
arXiv:2606. 19334v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Progress in legal AI increasingly depends on access to authoritative legal text at scale.
By Denis Peskoff, Joe Barrow, Christopher Vu, Diag Davenport
The paper introduces a pipeline and conversational system that processes 22,788 YouTube transcript and comment chunks from 309 North American cities to analyze public discourse on urbanism. It combines geographic entity resolution, topic modeling, sentiment analysis, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and reports empirical findings on model performance, such as a Twitter-tuned RoBERTa classifier outperforming VADER and dense retrieval surpassing TF‑IDF. The study also evaluates groundedness metrics, noting limitations of BERTScore and ROUGE‑1 for short user-generated text.
By Jakob Morales, Monica Hegde, Fayeq Jeelani Syed
arXiv:2607. 05574v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence increasingly mediates consequential decisions in healthcare, law, and public services, and the field has responded with an extensive methodology for measuring and mitigating bias.
By Abhash Shrestha, Subigya Gautam, Anu Sapkota, Sanju Tiwari, Tek Raj Chhetri
MoRA is a human‑centric geospatial representation learning framework that uses a large mobility graph as its backbone to fuse spatial tokenization, graph neural networks, and asymmetric contrastive learning. It aligns over 100 million points of interest, massive remote sensing imagery, and structured demographic data with a billion‑edge mobility graph, producing compact 128‑dimensional embeddings that capture socio‑economic context and functional roles of locations. On a benchmark of nine downstream social and economic prediction tasks, MoRA outperforms state‑of‑the‑art models by an average of 12.9% and demonstrates scaling behavior analogous to large language models.
By Ya Wen, Jixuan Cai, Qiyao Ma, Linyan Li, Xinhua Chen, Chris Webster, Yulun Zhou
GeoFitBench-LLM is a benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) on their ability to elicit geospatial data requirements for geo‑analytic tasks. It focuses on two reasoning dimensions—spatio‑temporal relational and semantic grounding—and uses a provider‑independent schema to encode ground‑truth requirements. Experiments on seven models show that while many can identify necessary resources, accurately specifying fitness‑for‑use remains challenging, with GPT‑5.4 Thinking recovering all resources in 66.67% of cases.
By Amirhossein Vahdat, Thierry Badard, Luc Lamontagne
The paper reviews ethical and privacy risks of large language model (LLM)–enabled geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), identifying eight recurring issues such as data provenance, spatial privacy, algorithmic bias, and technical risks. It evaluates current responses, noting many remain largely unaddressed or conceptual, and proposes a governance‑aware architecture with enforceable controls illustrated by a flood‑response routing scenario. The authors call for empirical validation, spatially specific interpretability tools, and workforce training to address these emerging risks.
By Maya Subramanian, Devika Jain
The Illinois Social Attitudes Aggregate Corpus (ISAAC) is an open, modular corpus comprising over 527 million English‑language Reddit posts from 2007 to 2023, curated for relevance to six social group distinctions—race, sexuality, age, ability, body weight, and skin tone. A multi‑step, human‑audited filtering pipeline keeps irrelevant content below 10% overall and per group, while each post receives algorithmic annotations of user home region and a suite of validated semantic labels such as moralization, sentiment, emotion, and linguistic generalization. ISAAC’s publicly available, reproducible pipeline enables cross‑category comparisons, high‑precision tracking of long‑term temporal shifts, and spatial mapping of public opinion and policy outcomes, and can be extended to new platforms, languages, and social categories via both point‑and‑click and programmatic interfaces.
By Babak Hemmatian, Sarah Hadjarab, Jessica Chen, Benedek Kurdi
arXiv:2608. 03882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Geospatial reasoning, i.
By Martin B\"ockling, Elizaveta Nosova, Heiko Paulheim, Andreea Iana