Papers by Vasuki Garg
Investigating Links between Illicit Massage Businesses through Natural Language Processing and Graph Machine Learning (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Illicit massage businesses exploit vulnerable individuals through forced sex or labor . identifying key indicators from vast volume of data associated with these businesses poses significant challenge . |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-stream data integration approach focusing on Yelp reviews . they propose bespoke subgraph extraction strategies to detect links between massage businesses . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms baseline methods in a multi-stream data integration framework based on consumer reviews on Yelp.com and contextual data from the U.S. Census and business license records. |