Publications

Modeling Event-Conditioned Emotional Response in LLM Agents in a Synthetic Social Simulation
Rebecca Marigliano, Peter Carragher, Kathleen M. Carley
Under revision at Transactions on Computational Social Systems: Special Issue on Generative Computational Social Intelligence: Modeling, Simulation, and Applications.. 2026.
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A Survey on LLMs for Story Generation
Maria Teleki, Vedangi Bengali, Peter Carragher, Xiangjue Dong, Sai Tejas Janjur, Haoran Liu, Tian Liu, Cong Wang, Ting Liu, Yin Zhang, Frank Shipman, James Caverlee
Under revision at Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology: Special Issue on Story Generation. 2026.
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Simulating opinion dynamics with LLMs on Synthetic Social Media using the Extended Friedkin Model
Rebecca Marigliano, Peter Carragher, Kathleen M. Carley
Working paper. 2026.
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SocialPulse: An Open-Source Subreddit Sensemaking Toolkit
Stephanie Birkelbach, Maria Teleki, Peter Carragher, Xiangjue Dong, Nehul Bhatnagar, and James Caverlee
SocialLLM: ICWSM Workshop on Large Language Models for Social Reasoning and Simulation. 2026.
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PodChecker: An Interpretable Fact-Checking Companion for Podcasts
Anna Irmetova, Haoran Liu, Maria Teleki, Peter Carragher, Julie Zhang, James Caverlee
MisD: ICWSM Workshop on Misinformation Detection in the Era of LLMs. 2026.
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Misinformation Resilient Search Rankings with Webgraph-based Interventions
Peter Carragher, Evan M. Williams, Kathleen M. Carley
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology: Special Issue on Responsible Recommender Systems. 2025.
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Bridging Social Media and Search Engines: Dredge Words and the Detection of Unreliable Domains
Evan M. Williams, Peter Carragher, Kathleen M. Carley
ICWSM 2025: The 19th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 2025.
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Quantifying Memorization and Parametric Response Rates in Retrieval-Augmented Vision-Language Models
Peter Carragher, Abhinand Jha, R Raghav, Kathleen M. Carley
L2M2: ACL Workshop on Large Language Model Memorization. 2025.
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SegSub: Evaluating Robustness to Knowledge Conflicts and Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models
Peter Carragher, Nikitha Rao, Abhinand Jha, R Raghav, Kathleen M. Carley
MisD: ICWSM Workshop on Misinformation Detection in the Era of LLMs. 2025.
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Extending the BEND Framework to Webgraphs
Evan M. Williams, Peter Carragher, Kathleen M. Carley
SBP-BRiMS 2024: International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. 2025.
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Mapping the Scientific Literature on Misinformation Interventions: A Bibliometric Review
Catherine King, Peter Carragher, Kathleen M. Carley
COMPASS: The 1st international Workshop on Computational Approaches to Content Moderation and Platform Governance. 2025.
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Detection and Discovery of Misinformation Sources using Attributed Webgraphs
Peter Carragher, Evan M. Williams, Kathleen M. Carley
ICWSM 2024: The 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 2024.
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Accountability in Search Engine Manipulation: A Case Study of the Iranian News Ecosystem
Peter Carragher, Kathleen M. Carley
SBP-BRiMS 2024: International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. 2024.
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Simulation of Stance Perturbation
Peter Carragher, Lynnette Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
SBP-BRiMS 2023: International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation. 2023.
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Simulation of Stance Perturbation
Peter Carragher, Lynnette Xian Ng, Kathleen M. Carley
WSC 2022: Proceedings of the 2022 Winter Simulation Conference. 2022.
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