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How Well Do You Know Your Audience? Toward Socially-aware Question Generation
Ian Stewart, Rada Mihalcea
When writing, a person may need to anticipate questions from their audience, but different social groups may ask very different types of questions. If someone is writing about a pr…
Micromodels for Efficient, Explainable, and Reusable Systems: A Case Study on Mental Health
Andrew Lee, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Lawrence C. An +1
Many statistical models have high accuracy on test benchmarks, but are not explainable, struggle in low-resource scenarios, cannot be reused for multiple tasks, and cannot easily i…
WhyAct: Identifying Action Reasons in Lifestyle Vlogs
Oana Ignat, Santiago Castro, Hanwen Miao +2
We aim to automatically identify human action reasons in online videos. We focus on the widespread genre of lifestyle vlogs, in which people perform actions while verbally describi…
CIDER: Commonsense Inference for Dialogue Explanation and Reasoning
Deepanway Ghosal, Pengfei Hong, Siqi Shen +3
Commonsense inference to understand and explain human language is a fundamental research problem in natural language processing. Explaining human conversations poses a great challe…
Exploring Self-Identified Counseling Expertise in Online Support Forums
Allison Lahnala, Yuntian Zhao, Charles Welch +5
A growing number of people engage in online health forums, making it important to understand the quality of the advice they receive. In this paper, we explore the role of expertise…
Exemplars-guided Empathetic Response Generation Controlled by the Elements of Human Communication
Navonil Majumder, Deepanway Ghosal, Devamanyu Hazarika +3
The majority of existing methods for empathetic response generation rely on the emotion of the context to generate empathetic responses. However, empathy is much more than generati…
How Good Is NLP? A Sober Look at NLP Tasks through the Lens of Social Impact
Zhijing Jin, Geeticka Chauhan, Brian Tse +2
Recent years have seen many breakthroughs in natural language processing (NLP), transitioning it from a mostly theoretical field to one with many real-world applications. Noting th…
MUSER: MUltimodal Stress Detection using Emotion Recognition as an Auxiliary Task
Yiqun Yao, Michalis Papakostas, Mihai Burzo +2
The capability to automatically detect human stress can benefit artificial intelligent agents involved in affective computing and human-computer interaction. Stress and emotion are…
Room to Grow: Understanding Personal Characteristics Behind Self Improvement Using Social Media
MeiXing Dong, Xueming Xu, Yiwei Zhang +2
Many people aim for change, but not everyone succeeds. While there are a number of social psychology theories that propose motivation-related characteristics of those who persist w…
Extractive and Abstractive Explanations for Fact-Checking and Evaluation of News
Ashkan Kazemi, Zehua Li, Verónica Pérez-Rosas +1
In this paper, we explore the construction of natural language explanations for news claims, with the goal of assisting fact-checking and news evaluation applications. We experimen…
FIBER: Fill-in-the-Blanks as a Challenging Video Understanding Evaluation Framework
Santiago Castro, Ruoyao Wang, Pingxuan Huang +5
We propose fill-in-the-blanks as a video understanding evaluation framework and introduce FIBER -- a novel dataset consisting of 28,000 videos and descriptions in support of this e…
Chord Embeddings: Analyzing What They Capture and Their Role for Next Chord Prediction and Artist Attribute Prediction
Allison Lahnala, Gauri Kambhatla, Jiajun Peng +6
Natural language processing methods have been applied in a variety of music studies, drawing the connection between music and language. In this paper, we expand those approaches by…