Given the increased concern of racial disparities in the stop-and-frisk programs, the New York Police Department (NYPD) requires publicly displaying detailed data for all the stops conducted by police authorities, including the suspected offense and race ...

An accountable algorithmic transparency report (ATR) should ideally investigate (a) transparency of the underlying algorithm, and (b) fairness of the algorithmic decisions, and at the same time preserve data subjects’ privacy. However, a provably formal ...

Large-scale adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI-ML) models fed by heterogeneous, possibly untrustworthy data sources has spurred interest in estimating degradation of such models due to spurious, adversarial, or low-quality data ...

Aspect-level sentiment analysis identifies fine-grained emotion for target words. There are three major issues in current models of aspect-level sentiment analysis. First, few models consider the natural language semantic characteristics of the texts. ...