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2024-12-30: Unveiling Coyote Ads: Detecting Human Smuggling Advertisements on...
Figure 1: An example of a Coyote ad on social media in Spanish. (Figure 1 in Kodandaram et al.) IntroductionSocial media has revolutionized how information flows, connecting people across the globe at...
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2024-12-31: The 27th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and...
ETD 2024 took place in Livingstone, ZambiaI had the privilege of participating in the 27th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2024), which took place as a hybrid event...
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2024-12-31: Benchmark: Whether LLM agents can evaluate, replicate, and...
I am excited to announce that Old Dominion University (ODU) is part of the multi-university grant awarded by the Open Philanthropy Foundation to support the development of a systematic benchmark...
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2025-01-06: Data Visualization Class Projects - Fall 2024
It's been a couple years since I last posted on my visualization students' projects, but I wanted to continue the tradition with highlights from my most recent class. (Previous semester's posts are...
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2025-01-06: 9th Computational Archival Science Workshop Trip Report
The 9th Computational Archival Science Workshop took place in Washington, DC in December, 2024 The 9th Computational Archival Science Workshop, a part of the IEEE Big Data conference, took place on...
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2025-01-07: Paper Summary: "GazePrompt: Enhancing Low Vision People’s Reading...
The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) serves as the leading global platform for showcasing innovative research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). It convenes researchers,...
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2025-01-10: Five WSDL Classes Offered for Spring 2025
https://xkcd.com/2700/Five courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Group will be offered for Spring 2025. The classes will be a mixture of on-line, f2f, and hybrid. CS 418/518 Web...
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2025-01-15: Revolutionizing Eye Tracking and Data Collection: A Look at...
Project Aria glasses, introduced by Meta (formerly Facebook), represent a significant leap in wearable devices. Announced as part of Meta's larger vision for the metaverse, these glasses are designed...
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2025-01-16: Do Large Language Models Agree on Entity Extraction?
As Natural Language Processing (NLP) evolves, Large Language Models (LLMs) are capable of interpreting text and extracting meaningful information. However, during my recent experimentation with Named...
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2025-01-22: From Narrative to Conceptualization: The Role of Large Language...
Figure 1. An Illustration of the transition from storytelling to advanced conceptualization. Image Generated by DALL-E.In my previous blog,—“Do Large Language Models Agree on Entity Extraction?”— I...
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2025-01-27: Can LLMs Detect and Analyze Changes in Webpages?
Image Generated by DALL-EThe utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) across diverse tasks raises important questions about the role of AI in web archive contexts, particularly in facilitating change...
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2025-01-27: ODU CS 2024 Trick-or-Research Event Recap
The Department of Computer Science (CS) at Old Dominion University (ODU) celebrated its sixth annual Trick-or-Research event on October 31, 2024, blending Halloween festivities with academic...
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2024-01-27: LLM Driven Behavioral Analysis for Adaptive Intrusion Detection...
I am delighted to receive the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Grant for $100,000 to support our collaborative proposal, “Adaptive Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks Using LLM-Driven Behavioral Analysis...
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2025-02-10: Creating a Dataset of Archived Web Ads
Figure 1: Themes view for the web page we created to display ads from our datasetOne of the goals for the Saving Ads project was to create a dataset of advertisements from the live web. To construct...
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2025-02-11: Getting to the Source of the (Memento) Damage
I've previously written about the Memento Damage project, originally started by Dr. Justin Brunelle, a Web service designed to estimate the amount of damage to a web archive by assessing it's...
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2025-02-11: Tracking Political Trends Around US Presidential Election
The Computer Science Graduate Society (CSGS) of the Old Dominion University organized a Hackathon from October 24 to November 1, 2024. The competition featured three teams from the master's category...
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2025-02-25: A Rollercoaster of Deadlines, Discoveries, and Late-Night Snacks:...
It felt like yesterday when I first enrolled in Old Dominion University (ODU) to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2019 (Muntabir's introduction). Fortunately, I was accepted to the Lab for Applied...
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2025-03-26: A Battle of Opinions: Tools vs. Humans (and Humans vs. Humans) in...
Introduction We analyzed the sentiment of 100 tweets using three sentiment analysis tools (TextBlob, VADER, and a RoBERTa-base model) and six human raters. To measure agreement, we calculated Cohen’s...
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2025-03-27: Establishing a Baseline by Administration for the Takedown of US...
Figure 1: A samhsa.gov page identified by the New York Times as removed under the second Trump administrationOn February 2, 2025, Ethan Singer (@ethanpsinger) published an article in the New York Times...
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Cliff Lynch: The Invisible Influencer in Information Infrastructure
Cliff Lynch: The Invisible Influencer in Information InfrastructureHerbert Van de Sompel and Michael L. NelsonNote: In the Summer of 2025, a shorter version of this blog post will be published as an...
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2025-04-15: Celebrating Global Collaboration and Innovation at ODU
We were honored to host Dr. Michael Herzog and his colleague Stefan Puest from Magdeburg-Stendal University for his annual visit to Hampton Roads. During his visit, he engaged with students and faculty...
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2025-05-06: Part 1 - Large Language Models (LLMs) are hallucinating in Arabic...
IntroductionLarge Language Models (LLMs) have been omnipresent in the past few years and everyone, in one way or another, is using them. The most popular chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s...
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2025-05-06: Part 2 - Large Language Models (LLMs) are hallucinating in Arabic...
IntroductionI discussed LLMs' hallucinations and demonstrated their inability to correctly cite Quranic verses using Google Gemini as an example in part 1 of this blog post. Google Gemini's answers to...
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2025-05-06: Part 3 - Large Language Models (LLMs) are hallucinating in Arabic...
IntroductionBy the time I finished trying to reproduce the results in the paper I reviewed in Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog post, DeepSeek released its first free chatbot app DeepSeek-V3 on January...
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2025-05-08: Thank you to NEH, IMLS, DoD Minerva, and NSF
I have the distinction, or dis-honor, of having all of my active federal research grants terminated by the current administration. None of the grants were researching anything especially controversial,...
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