Publications

Just Another Hour on TikTok: Reverse-Engineering Unique Identifiers to Obtain a Complete Slice of TikTok
Steel, B., Schirmer, M., Ruths, D., & Pfeffer, J. (2026)
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 6.

Gender Studies und Genozid
Schirmer, M.,, Blome, N., Stewens, P., & Neuber, E. (2025)
Sozialmagazin, 10, 14-20.

Detecting Child Objectification on Social Media: Challenges in Language Modeling
Schirmer, M., Voggenreiter, A., Pfeffer, J., & Horvát, E.-Á. (2025)
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), pages 396–412, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Disparities by design: Toward a research agenda that links science misinformation and socioeconomic marginalization in the age of AI
Schirmer, M., Walter, N., & Horvát, E.-Á. (2025)
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.

Parental behavior shows systematic urban–rural differences across the globe
Köster, M., Schirmer, M., Schäfer, M., Kärtner, J., Ainamani, H., Cavalcante, L., Itakura, S., Jiménez-Balam, D., Abromeiti, M., Hilbert, S., & Kanngiesser, P. (2025)
OSF Preprints.

Causally modeling the linguistic and social factors that predict email response
Xu, Y., Chen, H., Rakshit, S., Ananthasubramaniam, A., Yadav, O., Zheng, M., Jiang, M., Zhang, L., Yi, B., Alkiek, K., Israeli, A., Shu, B., Shen, H., Pei, J., Zhang, H., Schirmer, M., & Jurgens, D. (2025)
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), 11842–11866, Albuquerque, United States.

Large Language Models and the Challenge of Analyzing Discriminatory Discourse: Human-AI Synergy in Researching Hate Speech on Social Media
Breazu, P., Schirmer, M., Hu, S., & Kastos, N. (2025)
Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 1-19.

The Language of Trauma: Modeling Traumatic Event Descriptions Across Domains with Explainable AI
Schirmer, M.; Leemann, L., Kasneci, G., Pfeffer, J., & Jurgens, D. (2024)
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 13224–13242, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.

More Skin, More Likes! Measuring Child Exposure and User Engagement on TikTok
Schirmer, M., Voggenreiter, A., & Pfeffer, J. (2024)
arXiv preprint.

Investigating the Increase of Violent Speech in Incel Communities with Human-Guided GPT-4 Prompt Iteration
Matter, D.*, Schirmer, M.*, Grinberg, N., & Pfeffer, J. (2024)
Frontiers in Social Psychology, 2, 1383152 (* equal contribution).

GENTRAC: A Tool for Tracing Trauma in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Court Transcripts
Schirmer, M., Brechenmacher, C., & Pfeffer, J. (2024)
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 7666–7671, Torino, Italy.

Talking about Torture: A Novel Approach to the Mixed Methods Analysis of Genocide-Related Witness Statements in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Schirmer, M., Pfeffer, J., & Hilbert, S. (2023)
Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 0(0), 1–20.

Uncovering Trauma in Genocide Tribunals: An NLP Approach Using the Genocide Transcript Corpus
Schirmer, M., Nolasco, I. M. O., Mosca, E., Xu, S., & Pfeffer, J. (2023)
Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL), 257–266.

Personalized Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis (PETRA): A protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial to Test the Effect of a Psychological Intervention in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Seizer, L., Huber, E., Schirmer, M., Hilbert, S., Wiest, E. M., & Schubert, C. (2023)
Trials, 24, 743.

A New Dataset for Topic-Based Paragraph Classification in Genocide-Related Court Transcripts
Schirmer, M., Kruschwitz, U., & Donabauer, G. (2022)
Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 504–4512.