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EZ-Sort: Efficient Pairwise Comparison via Zero-Shot CLIP-Based Pre-Ordering and Human-in-the-Loop Sorting
Yujin Park, Haejun Chung, Ikbeom Jang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21550

EZ-Sort: Efficient Pairwise Comparison via Zero-Shot CLIP-Based Pre-Ordering and Human-in-the-Loop Sorting
Pairwise comparison is often favored over absolute rating or ordinal classification in subjective or difficult annotation tasks due to its improved reliability. However, exhaustive comparisons require a massive number of annotations (O(n^2)). Recent work has greatly reduced the annotation burden (O(n log n)) by actively sampling pairwise comparisons using a sorting algorithm. We further improve annotation efficiency by (1) roughly pre-ordering items using the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-trai…

Reliable Annotations with Less Effort: Evaluating LLM-Human Collaboration in Search Clarifications
Leila Tavakoli, Hamed Zamani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00543

Reliable Annotations with Less Effort: Evaluating LLM-Human Collaboration in Search Clarifications
Despite growing interest in using large language models (LLMs) to automate annotation, their effectiveness in complex, nuanced, and multi-dimensional labelling tasks remains relatively underexplored. This study focuses on annotation for the search clarification task, leveraging a high-quality, multi-dimensional dataset that includes five distinct fine-grained annotation subtasks. Although LLMs have shown impressive capabilities in general settings, our study reveals that even state-of-the-art m…

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UK court rules Palestine Action may challenge ‘antiterrorism’ ban | Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/30/uk-court-rules-palestine-action-may-challenge-antiterrorism-ban…

UK court rules Palestine Action may challenge ‘antiterrorism’ ban
The pro-Palestinian group requests a full legal challenge to its ban in London’s High Court.

Today the #SemDH2025 workshop takes place alongside #ESWC2025. I’m happy that Philipp Tögel will present our paper on Data-rich Web Annotations. We discuss how web annotations, a W3C standard, can be leveraged to include complex analysis with domain-specific data models as

Mapping Toxic Comments Across Demographics: A Dataset from German Public Broadcasting
Jan Fillies, Michael Peter Hoffmann, Rebecca Reichel, Roman Salzwedel, Sven Bodemer, Adrian Paschke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21084

Mapping Toxic Comments Across Demographics: A Dataset from German Public Broadcasting
A lack of demographic context in existing toxic speech datasets limits our understanding of how different age groups communicate online. In collaboration with funk, a German public service content network, this research introduces the first large-scale German dataset annotated for toxicity and enriched with platform-provided age estimates. The dataset includes 3,024 human-annotated and 30,024 LLM-annotated anonymized comments from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. To ensure relevance, comments we…

A US judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust lawsuit, filed in March 2024, accusing Apple of unlawfully dominating the US smartphone market (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Why do these people never have any inkling to look beyond their immediate fields of study?
Why do they find it good and proper if one of their members behaves in an absolutely unacceptable fashion, antithetical to your organization, repeatedly?
I'm not even talking Hitler salutes here. Musk was leading an organization that actively worked on dismantling scientific research and space exploration.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/aug/01/royal-society-elon-musk-astronomer-royal-michele-dougherty

An amazing read- 'You are both the poison and the antidote' (and huge thanks to @… for tipping me off to it): https://www.printmag.co…

A Broad View: You are both the poison and the antidote – PRINT Magazine
Monica Danielle on discovering wholeness in the American countryside.

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Google loses its appeal of a judge's order requiring an overhaul of its app store policies in an antitrust case filed by Epic Games (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-31/epic-games-win-over-google-i…