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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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2025-05-12: ACM Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC)...
The ACM Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC) 2025 conference took place on March 29, 2025, and it was hosted by the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. CAPWIC...
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2025-05-12: 2025 WS-DL Research Expo
On May 7, 2025, we held our fourth annual WS-DL Research Expo. We continued the same format as the prior years (2024, 2023, 2022 & 2021), with one student from each WS-DL professor giving a short...
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2025-05-21: Paper Summary: "AccessMenu: Enhancing Usability of Online...
The ACM Web4All Conference (W4A) is the premier venue for research focused on web accessibility. It brings together a diverse community committed to making the web inclusive for users of all abilities...
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2025-05-24: ACM ICMI 2024 Trip Report
The 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2024) was held from November 4 to 8 in San José, Costa Rica. This premier international forum brought together researchers and...
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2025-06-10: Comparing the Archival Rate of Arabic and English News Stories...
About 0.5% of websites publish their content in Arabic, occupying the 20th place among other languages; however, Arabic is the 6th most spoken language in the world at 3.4%. A considerable portion of...
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2025-06-11: Paper Summary: "Jawa: Web Archival in the Era of JavaScript"...
Figure 1: Jawa Overview. Figure from https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi22-goel.pdfWhile working on the Saving Ads project, we identified problems with replaying ads (technical report: “Archiving...
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2025-06-14: Reflecting on GAAD 2025 at ODU: A Deep‑Dive into "Accessible by...
Figure 1: A virtual slide from Old Dominion University's GAAD 2025 event highlights "Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)" during a hybrid session on inclusive design.Celebrating Global...
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2025-06-17: The 6th Research Infrastructures for the Study of Archived Web...
Siegen UniversityThe 6th RESAW (Research Infrastructures for the Study of Archived Web Materials) conference took place in Siegen, Germany from June 4 – June 6, 2025. The conference occurs every other...
View Article2025-06-24: GPU Hours Granted on Hypothesis Generation by Oak Ridge...
In collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the LAMP-SYS Lab was granted 20,000 node hours on the Frontier supercomputer cluster and 2500 node hours on the Andes supercomputer cluster. This...
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