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@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-28 09:42:31

TreeReader: A Hierarchical Academic Paper Reader Powered by Language Models
Zijian Zhang, Pan Chen, Fangshi Du, Runlong Ye, Oliver Huang, Michael Liut, Al\'an Aspuru-Guzik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18945

TreeReader: A Hierarchical Academic Paper Reader Powered by Language Models
Efficiently navigating and understanding academic papers is crucial for scientific progress. Traditional linear formats like PDF and HTML can cause cognitive overload and obscure a paper's hierarchical structure, making it difficult to locate key information. While LLM-based chatbots offer summarization, they often lack nuanced understanding of specific sections, may produce unreliable information, and typically discard the document's navigational structure. Drawing insights from a formative st…

@samir@functional.computer
2025-07-29 20:47:12

@… It’s on my ebook reader. Does that count?

@nelson@tech.lgbt
2025-05-29 04:06:51

Calamus 16 Who is now reading this?
A funny little poem, omitted in later editions. On the surface it's a challenge to the reader and a chance for Whitman to establish himself as self-aware. Claiming his own flaws.
But the text drips with some latent queer meaning
as if I do not secretly love strangers!
(O tenderly, a long time, and never avow it ;)
A secret love that you can never avow? Hello! At least it's tenderly and a long time.
This seems as good a time as any to link Whitman's Boys, a good recent piece considering Whitman as a queer man and what that means to us in current times. It's a nice overview of some queer theory and is even-handed.

@akosma@mastodon.online
2025-08-28 19:23:35

I'm going to give @… a shot at being my default browser these next few days, we'll see how it fares against Firefox.
Only complaints so far: the iOS app doesn't have (yet) a reader view (apparently it's a feature only available in TestFlight at the moment). And on Fedora at least, the integration with ProtonMail is broken (no connection t…

@msokolov@fosstodon.org
2025-05-29 22:18:36

@… also, dumber than the average reader... This Watson character might end up insulting a lot of readers if they ever hear about the rule

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-25 13:56:46

Balatro Ported to the Gameboy Advance’s e-Reader https://www.404media.co/balatro-ported-to-the-gameboy-advances-e-reader/

Balatro Ported to the Gameboy Advance’s e-Reader
A software engineer made a version of the game that runs off code printed onto a small card.

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-06-19 06:04:50

https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2025/06/18/sdpd-plate-reader-data-breach-early-days/
“San Diego’s settings were meant to bar other agencies from searching San Diego data, but there was a misconfiguration leading to almost three weeks where…

San Diego police admit license plate reader data breach in early days of program
The SDPD's license plate reader database was searched nearly 13,000 times during the early weeks of its use in 2023 and 2024.

@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-28 08:09:01

A Hybrid Recommendation Framework for Enhancing User Engagement in Local News
Payam Pourashraf, Bamshad Mobasher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19539 https://a…

A Hybrid Recommendation Framework for Enhancing User Engagement in Local News
Local news organizations face an urgent need to boost reader engagement amid declining circulation and competition from global media. Personalized news recommender systems offer a promising solution by tailoring content to user interests. Yet, conventional approaches often emphasize general preferences and may overlook nuanced or eclectic interests in local news. We propose a hybrid news recommender that integrates local and global preference models to improve engagement. Building on evidence…

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2025-06-26 12:53:51

I had reason to break out my very brief tutorial on styling links and buttons today:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/08/styling-links-and-buttons.html
I wrote it because I’ve encountered many devs who use the wrong element claiming they can’t style …

Styling Links and Buttons
I made a tutorial for styling links and buttons, something which many developers have struggled with (resulting in links used as buttons and buttons used as links). I have embedded it on this page, but if you are coming in with your RSS reader you can visit the tutorial directly…

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-25 05:45:06

“Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts
‘fuck you’ and ignore any such order,”according to the account.
“Mr. Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned, & he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room.“
#EmilBove

@pdmckone@mstdn.ca
2025-06-23 12:32:16

Reading a post can have two effects:
But never, apparently, both.

@arXiv_mathNT_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-27 09:27:22

Greenberg's conjecture and Inverse Galois problem: metacyclic-nonmodular group of type 1 whose abelianization is $\mathbb{Z}/2 \mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{Z}/2^m \mathbb{Z}$, $m\geq 2$
Mohamed Mahmoud Chems-Eddin, Hamza El Mamry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18402

Greenberg's conjecture and Inverse Galois problem: metacyclic-nonmodular group of type 1 whose abelianization is $\mathbb{Z}/2 \mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{Z}/2^m \mathbb{Z}$, $m\geq 2$
For an integer $m\geq 2$, we aim to investigate the realizability of types of metacyclic-nonmodular groups, whose abelianization is $\mathbb{Z}/2 \mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{Z}/2^m \mathbb{Z}$, as the Galois group of the maximal unramified $2$-extension (resp. pro-$2$-extension) of certain number fields of $2$-power degree (resp. cyclotomic $\mathbb Z_2$-extensions). Furthermore, we show up some new techniques for studying Greenberg's conjecture for some number fields. In particular, the reader c…

@nelson@tech.lgbt
2025-06-27 04:15:36

Calamus 45 Full of life, sweet-blooded, compact, visible
A remarkably effective poem for the end of the cluster. Whitman talking directly to us, the reader, about the import of his poems. And with some ambition: "To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence".
But even better, he's horny for us:
Now it is you ... seeking me,
Fancying how happy you were, if I could be with you, and become your lover
The poet is imagining us, his future readers, thinking about how we will want to be his lover. What a lusty man! Whitman is not modest.
I love it. And it's a fitting end to this series. I've greatly enjoyed reading them. Over the past 45 days I've learned better how to read Whitman, to understand his poems. And to relate to them in at least one simple way, teasing out the gayest and sexiest parts of these poems. Making them fun for myself.
I'm not quite done yet. I hope to identify my favorites of the group. I may also try my hand at reading one or two aloud.

@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-26 12:02:36

German4All - A Dataset and Model for Readability-Controlled Paraphrasing in German
Miriam Ansch\"utz, Thanh Mai Pham, Eslam Nasrallah, Maximilian M\"uller, Cristian-George Craciun, Georg Groh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17973

German4All - A Dataset and Model for Readability-Controlled Paraphrasing in German
The ability to paraphrase texts across different complexity levels is essential for creating accessible texts that can be tailored toward diverse reader groups. Thus, we introduce German4All, the first large-scale German dataset of aligned readability-controlled, paragraph-level paraphrases. It spans five readability levels and comprises over 25,000 samples. The dataset is automatically synthesized using GPT-4 and rigorously evaluated through both human and LLM-based judgments. Using German4All…

@arXiv_physicsmedph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-28 11:52:46

Replaced article(s) found for physics.med-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.med-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Personalized MR-Informed Diffusion Models for 3D PET Image Reconstruction
George Webber, Alexander Hammers, Andrew P. King, Andrew J. Reader

@akosma@mastodon.online
2025-08-26 17:22:23

Finally. This is the PDF reader I had been looking for.
(via @… )
https://sioyek.info/

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-25 05:31:03

“it became clear to Mr. Reuveni” that the Departments of #State & #HomelandSecurity “were receiving contrary directions from someone else to take action
#EmilBove

@samir@functional.computer
2025-08-26 08:50:55

@… All good, I’m glad you read it, and that you subscribe. ^_^
I just forced a refresh on my feed reader and it shows up, so I think you’ll get it.

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-08-19 14:42:03

from my link log —
Basic dependency injection with objects in OCaml.
https://gr-im.github.io/a/dependency-injection.html
saved 2025-08-18

Basic dependency injection with objects
A simple way to encode dependency injection using the Reader monad and objects in OCaml (to work well with type inference).

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-24 08:46:20

Write, Rank, or Rate: Comparing Methods for Studying Visualization Affordances
Chase Stokes, Kylie Lin, Cindy Xiong Bearfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17024 https://

Write, Rank, or Rate: Comparing Methods for Studying Visualization Affordances
A growing body of work on visualization affordances highlights how specific design choices shape reader takeaways from information visualizations. However, mapping the relationship between design choices and reader conclusions often requires labor-intensive crowdsourced studies, generating large corpora of free-response text for analysis. To address this challenge, we explored alternative scalable research methodologies to assess chart affordances. We test four elicitation methods from human-su…

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-18 04:43:03

Piketty on the need for a wealth tax, with a fairly hilarious French Revolution analogy – Le blog de Thomas Piketty https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/06/17/the-senate-beside-the-story/

Ultra-wealthy, the Senate beside the story
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on the 1,800 French people whose net worth exceeds €100 million, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the upper house, the Sénat, has shown just how disconnected it is from the issues of our time. This is nothing new. Between 1896 …

Continuer la lecture

@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io
2025-08-27 13:29:27

I’ve been getting beta reader feedback on my #novel and it’s the most magical thing hearing how other people have formed their own relationships to and feelings towards my characters.
I made up these characters in my own mind, they didn’t exist a few months ago, and now they are real to not just me but other living, breathing humans.
Artistic creation feels like one of the closest ways we have of approaching a sense of something almost divine.
#writing #writersofmastodon #fictionWriting #writers

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2025-07-31 12:01:50

Frustrating because the dev clearly never tested their screen-reader-only approach with a screen reader:
https://aus.social/@jcsteh/114946641302082245
Even more frustrating because `<del>` and `<ins>` support is good (even with Apple’s unacknowledged bug):

Jamie Teh (@jcsteh@aus.social)
In today's episode of web accessibility shit-fuckery: prices for an online shop that are aria-hidden, with "screen reader text" that is display: none, rendering the prices completely inaccessible to screen reader users. Original price was: $899.00.

@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2025-06-16 07:31:05

Hello!
I have a happy favour to ask.
Last year, I had a US intern working with us and she now is looking for help that you- good reader of this account- could give.
(She needs academic survey participants)
Check out her flyer below, click the link, and please RT
http…

@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-21 09:46:40

Modeling Fair Play in Detective Stories with Language Models
Eitan Wagner, Renana Keydar, Omri Abend
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13841 https://

Modeling Fair Play in Detective Stories with Language Models
Effective storytelling relies on a delicate balance between meeting the reader's prior expectations and introducing unexpected developments. In the domain of detective fiction, this tension is known as fair play, which includes the implicit agreement between the writer and the reader as to the range of possible resolutions the mystery story may have. In this work, we present a probabilistic framework for detective fiction that allows us to define desired qualities. Using this framework, we form…

@tezoatlipoca@mas.to
2025-06-16 14:36:58

Oh snap! `YARR - Yet Another RSS Reader` has a new version and I missed it in March!
https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr/releases/tag/v2.5
YARR is like Feedly or NewsBlur, except more like TinyRSS or FreshRSS - you can self-host.
UNLIKE those, you can tell yarr…

@arXiv_hepth_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-23 09:59:20

The Carrollian Kaleidoscope
Arjun Bagchi, Aritra Banerjee, Prateksh Dhivakar, Saikat Mondal, Ashish Shukla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16164 https://…

The Carrollian Kaleidoscope
The Carroll group arises in the vanishing speed of light limit of the Poincaré group and was initially discarded as just a mathematical curiosity. However, recent developments have proved otherwise. Carroll and conformal Carroll symmetries are now ubiquitous, appearing in diverse physical phenomena starting from condensed matter physics to quantum gravity. This review aims to provide the reader a gateway into this fast-developing field. After an introduction and setting the stage with basics o…

@samir@functional.computer
2025-06-25 22:24:57

@… Hell yeah!
Would you consider publishing more?
I love your threads but I find them hard to follow, and easy to miss or lose. Have you considered turning them into articles, and letting us subscribe with a feed reader?

@Xavier@infosec.exchange
2025-05-30 15:34:25

"Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE."
https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-n…

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-26 10:24:56

The Impact of Visual Segmentation on Lexical Word Recognition
Matthew Termuende, Kevin Larson, Miguel Nacenta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16914 https://arxi…

The Impact of Visual Segmentation on Lexical Word Recognition
When a reader encounters a word in English, they split the word into smaller orthographic units in the process of recognizing its meaning. For example, "rough", when split according to phonemes, is decomposed as r-ou-gh (not as r-o-ugh or r-ough), where each group of letters corresponds to a sound. Since there are many ways to segment a group of letters, this constitutes a computational operation that has to be solved by the reading brain, many times per minute, in order to achieve the recognit…

@arXiv_csDC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-21 08:03:39

Auditable Shared Objects: From Registers to Synchronization Primitives
Hagit Attiya, Antonio Fern\'andez Anta, Alessia Milani, Alexandre Rapetti, Corentin Travers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14506

Auditable Shared Objects: From Registers to Synchronization Primitives
Auditability allows to track operations performed on a shared object, recording who accessed which information. This gives data owners more control on their data. Initially studied in the context of single-writer registers, this work extends the notion of auditability to other shared objects, and studies their properties. We start by moving from single-writer to multi-writer registers, and provide an implementation of an auditable $n$-writer $m$-reader read / write register, with $O(n+m)$ ste…

@arXiv_eessIV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-19 08:42:27

Improving Prostate Gland Segmenting Using Transformer based Architectures
Shatha Abudalou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14844 https://ar…

Improving Prostate Gland Segmenting Using Transformer based Architectures
Inter reader variability and cross site domain shift challenge the automatic segmentation of prostate anatomy using T2 weighted MRI images. This study investigates whether transformer models can retain precision amid such heterogeneity. We compare the performance of UNETR and SwinUNETR in prostate gland segmentation against our previous 3D UNet model [1], based on 546 MRI (T2weighted) volumes annotated by two independent experts. Three training strategies were analyzed: single cohort dataset, 5…

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-25 15:16:59

Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed https://www.404media.co/flock-removes-states-from-national-lookup-tool-after-ice-and-abortion-searches-revealed/

Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed
Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.

@nelson@tech.lgbt
2025-06-24 01:22:59

Calamus 42 To the young man
A short poem but very hot, dripping with latent queer meaning. Or pederasty, if I'm being honest.
The poem is literally Whitman offering to teach a young man. "To absorb, to engraft, to develop". And "to help him become élève", a fancy French word for student, and the choice there certainly raises an eyebrow.
But then what qualifications does this student require? Here, in the negation:
If he be not silently selected by lovers, and do not silently select lovers
That's not the usual test scores and sports achievements! Instead Whitman seems to have a specific extracurricular activity in mind. (And note the "select" directly echoes the "picking me out" in the previous poem.)
This poem becomes particularly bold when understanding it as Whitman speaking directly to the reader. Perhaps a young man that Whitman can take under his wing.
I'm being a bit silly but this kind of mentorship has a long, sexy gay history.

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-06-05 17:49:48

Dutch @… opinion editor selects letter from reader claiming that Wilders' far-right PVV has an 'enormous majority' in parliament, and that this mirrors the country.
In real life, PVV got 23.5% of the votes and almost 25% of the seats in parliament.

Screenshot of that letter, in the top of the opinion page

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-07-08 10:53:03

As an author, I'm not always a fan of long and justifiably critical reader's reports (though they're often very helpful). As an editor, I love them.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-06-07 00:40:57

Thanks for the thoughtful replies. Answers to questions:
Many people asked for the context. This is for college students using what they already know about the order of arithmetic operations to start analyzing the structure of code. In the activity, they visual code structures using these kind of diagrams. The important thing here is thus not just subtraction; it’s this way of visualizing the relationships — and there already is a sight-centeric word, “visualize!” But I suspect a blind reader could also use these spatial relationships as a learning tool…if there were a good way of conveying the spatial relationships.

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-17 10:24:49

Screen Reader Users in the Vibe Coding Era: Adaptation, Empowerment, and New Accessibility Landscape
Nan Chen, Luna K. Qiu, Arran Zeyu Wang, Zilong Wang, Yuqing Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13270

Screen Reader Users in the Vibe Coding Era: Adaptation, Empowerment, and New Accessibility Landscape
The rise of generative AI agents has reshaped human-computer interaction and computer-supported cooperative work by shifting users' roles from direct task execution to supervising machine-driven actions, especially in programming (e.g., "vibe coding"). However, there is limited understanding of how screen reader users engage with these systems in practice. To address this gap, we conducted a longitudinal study with 16 screen reader users, exploring their experiences with AI code assistants in d…

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-22 17:29:58

IF YOU EVER FEEL HEAVY
BECAUSE YOU CARE DEEPLY ABOUT INJUSTICE, SUFFERING AND ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION,
REMEMBER THAT A TRILLION
DOLLAR PROPAGANDA MACHINE
WAS BUILT TO MAKE YOU NUMB
AND IT DIDN'T WORK ON YOU
-- Natasha Jay
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/1147281

A bright turquoise wall features bold black text with a motivational message addressing feelings of heaviness due to caring about social and ecological issues.

The text emphasizes the impact of a trillion-dollar propaganda machine, concluding with encouragement that it didn't succeed in overwhelming the reader.

Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 (@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt)
Attached: 1 image I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

@prachisrivas@masto.ai
2025-07-09 05:49:00

Ironically eponymous.
Springer Nature Book on Machine Learning is Full of Made-up Citations
'Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book. Two-thirds of them either did not exist or had substantial errors. And three researchers cited in the book confirmed the works they supposedly authored were fake or the citation contained substantial errors.'

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

@makeratschool@kanoa.de
2025-06-06 06:21:21

Lest diesen Thread. Unbedingt. Und schickt euren Freunden, Bekannten und Verwandten eine Zusammenfassung. Vor allem an SPD, FDP und CxU Wählende. Ich hab da schon mal was vorbereitet.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/mastodon…

@christydena@zirk.us
2025-07-08 03:23:00

Question for any folk that do reader/audience/play testing.
I find that the more fidelity (detail, production value) a project has, the less accurate the user's identification of an issue. I try to interpret accordingly.
Do you know of any studies regarding this or personal experiences (that confirm or refute this)? I have studies on how people don't know what they want, etc. But keen on the connection btw fidelity & inaccuracy
Thank you! :)
Other relate…

@arXiv_physicsclassph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-26 08:59:06

Classical Dirac particle II. Interaction with an electromagnetic plane wave
Juan Barandiaran, Martin Rivas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16649 https://arxiv.o…

Classical Dirac particle II. Interaction with an electromagnetic plane wave
In a previous work we have described the classical structure and analyzed the interaction of the classical Dirac particle with uniform and oscillating electric and magnetic fields. In the present paper we consider the interaction of the Dirac particle at rest with an electromagnetic plane wave packet. The integration of the dynamical equations is done numerically with a Mathematica notebook that is available to the reader. Independently of the electric charge of the Dirac particle the interacti…

@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-13 10:16:32

READER: Retrieval-Assisted Drafter for Efficient LLM Inference
Maxim Divilkovskiy, Vitaly Malygin, Sergey Zlobin, Sultan Isali, Vasily Kalugin, Stanislav Ilyushin, Nuriza Aitassova, Yi Fei, Zeng Weidi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09072

READER: Retrieval-Assisted Drafter for Efficient LLM Inference
Large Language Models (LLMs) generate tokens autoregressively, with each token depending on the preceding context. This sequential nature makes the inference process inherently difficult to accelerate, posing a significant challenge for efficient deployment. In recent years, various methods have been proposed to address this issue, with the most effective approaches often involving the training of additional draft models. In this paper, we introduce READER (Retrieval-Assisted Drafter for Effici…

@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2025-06-16 07:31:05

PARTICIPANTS NEEDED
***-
Research Study on Data Privacy and Collective Redress
A researcher at University College Dublin wants to
conduct anonymized interviews to learn about why
you would or would not participate in collective legal
action to rectify a data protection violation. This
information can be used to help nonprofit
organizations better represent you when your data
protection rights are violated.
Requirements:
• 18 + years of age
• Residing in Ireland or the EU
• English speaking
FOR …

Research Study on Data Privacy and Collective Redress
A researcher at University College Dublin wants to conduct anonymous interviews to learn about why you would or would not participate in a legal action to rectify a data protection violation. This information can be used to help nonprofit organizations better represent you when organizations violate your data protection rights. Provide your email to receive more information. All personally identifiable information will be deleted following completion of the study.

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-23 09:10:40

Semantic Scaffolding: Augmenting Textual Structures with Domain-Specific Groupings for Accessible Data Exploration
Jonathan Zong, Isabella Pedraza Pineros, Mengzhu Katie Chen, Daniel Hajas, Arvind Satyanarayan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15883

Semantic Scaffolding: Augmenting Textual Structures with Domain-Specific Groupings for Accessible Data Exploration
Drawing connections between interesting groupings of data and their real-world meaning is an important, yet difficult, part of encountering a new dataset. A lay reader might see an interesting visual pattern in a chart but lack the domain expertise to explain its meaning. Or, a reader might be familiar with a real-world concept but struggle to express it in terms of a dataset's fields. In response, we developed semantic scaffolding, a technique for using domain-specific information from large l…

@Xavier@infosec.exchange
2025-05-30 15:34:25

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-07-06 02:45:36

Theda Skocpol suggests that the torrent of money being pumped into ICE is about building a Federal Gestapo to be sent to war against non-MAGA states and cities and instiitutions and populations:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/c

Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy
TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...

@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-11 09:50:29

Improving Table Retrieval with Question Generation from Partial Tables
Hsing-Ping Liang, Che-Wei Chang, Yao-Chung Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06168 https://

Improving Table Retrieval with Question Generation from Partial Tables
Recent advances in open-domain question answering over tables have widely adopted large language models (LLMs) under the Retriever-Reader architecture. Prior works have effectively leveraged LLMs to tackle the complex reasoning demands of the Reader component, such as text-to-text, text-to-SQL, and multi hop reasoning. In contrast, the Retriever component has primarily focused on optimizing the query representation-training retrievers to retrieve relevant tables based on questions, or to select…

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-07-13 02:07:45

Every tenth of a degree matters; each increment of global warming will bring a relatively larger increase in adverse societal and ecological impacts than the last.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/114843468388096178

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2025-08-08 02:48:55

I’m not even a screen reader user, and I wrote a blog post about folks (managers, marketers, devs, etc) lazily blaming screen readers. Though I suspect folks bitched to me because I’m not blind so of course I would agree.
https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/114988592594107119

Robert Kingett (@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social)
Content warning: Rant. I actually hate accessibility consulting.

@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-08 13:46:51

Retain or Reframe? A Computational Framework for the Analysis of Framing in News Articles and Reader Comments
Matteo Guida, Yulia Otmakhova, Eduard Hovy, Lea Frermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04612

Retain or Reframe? A Computational Framework for the Analysis of Framing in News Articles and Reader Comments
When a news article describes immigration as an "economic burden" or a "humanitarian crisis," it selectively emphasizes certain aspects of the issue. Although \textit{framing} shapes how the public interprets such issues, audiences do not absorb frames passively but actively reorganize the presented information. While this relationship between source content and audience response is well-documented in the social sciences, NLP approaches often ignore it, detecting frames in articles and response…

@samir@functional.computer
2025-07-10 12:16:04

@… Yay! I can confirm that my feed reader picked up 9 articles.

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-22 08:57:11

Understanding Accessibility Needs of Blind Authors on CMS-Based Websites
Guillermo Vera-Amaro, Jos\'e Rafael Rojano-C\'aceres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15045 https://…

Understanding Accessibility Needs of Blind Authors on CMS-Based Websites
This paper addresses the limited attention given to blind users as content creators in Content Management Systems (CMS), a gap that remains under-explored in web accessibility research. For blind authors, effective interaction with CMS platforms requires more than technical compliance; it demands interfaces designed with semantic clarity, predictable navigation, and meaningful feedback for screen reader users. This study investigates the accessibility barriers blind users face when performing k…

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-06 14:06:44

"I want to look at Mars missions which never happened. Over the last 75 years there have been many ideas about missions to Mars, and I want to explore some of them that didn't fly. I'm a cartographer so the focus is on maps of mission plans, not technology"
-- @…

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2025-06-06 17:20:03

“Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/06/where-to-put-focus-when-opening-a-modal-dialog.html
TL;DR: blanket statements about where to put focus when opening a modal dialog are wrong, in…

Where to Put Focus When Opening a Modal Dialog
TL;DR: blanket statements about where to put focus when opening a modal dialog are wrong, including this one. This post is meant to help guide you, an intelligent and thoughtful and empathetic reader, figure out where you should set focus. The scenarios are non-exhaustive. Messages I’m artificially breaking these into…

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-21 08:16:20

Detecting Reading-Induced Confusion Using EEG and Eye Tracking
Haojun Zhuang, D\"unya Baradari, Nataliya Kosmyna, Arnav Balyan, Constanze Albrecht, Stephanie Chen, Pattie Maes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14442

Detecting Reading-Induced Confusion Using EEG and Eye Tracking
Humans regularly navigate an overwhelming amount of information via text media, whether reading articles, browsing social media, or interacting with chatbots. Confusion naturally arises when new information conflicts with or exceeds a reader's comprehension or prior knowledge, posing a challenge for learning. In this study, we present a multimodal investigation of reading-induced confusion using EEG and eye tracking. We collected neural and gaze data from 11 adult participants as they read shor…

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-06 07:18:47

Adapting Online Customer Reviews for Blind Users: A Case Study of Restaurant Reviews
Mohan Sunkara, Akshay Kolgar Nayak, Sandeep Kalari, Yash Prakash, Sampath Jayarathna, Hae-Na Lee, Vikas Ashok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04865

Adapting Online Customer Reviews for Blind Users: A Case Study of Restaurant Reviews
Online reviews have become an integral aspect of consumer decision-making on e-commerce websites, especially in the restaurant industry. Unlike sighted users who can visually skim through the reviews, perusing reviews remains challenging for blind users, who rely on screen reader assistive technology that supports predominantly one-dimensional narration of content via keyboard shortcuts. In an interview study, we uncovered numerous pain points of blind screen reader users with online restaurant…

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