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Leveraging Social Discourse to Measure Check-worthiness of Claims for Fact-checking
Megha Sundriyal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
The expansion of online social media platforms has led to a surge in online content consumption. However, this has also paved the way for disseminating false claims and misinformat…
Critical Behavioral Traits Foster Peer Engagement in Online Mental Health Communities
Aseem Srivastava, Tanya Gupta, Alison Cerezo +4
Online Mental Health Communities (OMHCs), such as Reddit, have witnessed a surge in popularity as go-to platforms for seeking information and support in managing mental health need…
Persona-aware Generative Model for Code-mixed Language
Ayan Sengupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty
Code-mixing and script-mixing are prevalent across online social networks and multilingual societies. However, a user's preference toward code-mixing depends on the socioeconomic s…
Emotion Flip Reasoning in Multiparty Conversations
Shivani Kumar, Shubham Dudeja, Md Shad Akhtar +1
In a conversational dialogue, speakers may have different emotional states and their dynamics play an important role in understanding dialogue's emotional discourse. However, simpl…
MEMEX: Detecting Explanatory Evidence for Memes via Knowledge-Enriched Contextualization
Shivam Sharma, Ramaneswaran S, Udit Arora +2
Memes are a powerful tool for communication over social media. Their affinity for evolving across politics, history, and sociocultural phenomena makes them an ideal communication v…
Counterspeeches up my sleeve! Intent Distribution Learning and Persistent Fusion for Intent-Conditioned Counterspeech Generation
Rishabh Gupta, Shaily Desai, Manvi Goel +3
Counterspeech has been demonstrated to be an efficacious approach for combating hate speech. While various conventional and controlled approaches have been studied in recent years…
Speaker Profiling in Multiparty Conversations
Shivani Kumar, Rishabh Gupta, Md Shad Akhtar +1
In conversational settings, individuals exhibit unique behaviors, rendering a one-size-fits-all approach insufficient for generating responses by dialogue agents. Although past stu…
Response-act Guided Reinforced Dialogue Generation for Mental Health Counseling
Aseem Srivastava, Ishan Pandey, Md. Shad Akhtar +1
Virtual Mental Health Assistants (VMHAs) have become a prevalent method for receiving mental health counseling in the digital healthcare space. An assistive counseling conversation…
Characterizing the Entities in Harmful Memes: Who is the Hero, the Villain, the Victim?
Shivam Sharma, Atharva Kulkarni, Tharun Suresh +4
Memes can sway people's opinions over social media as they combine visual and textual information in an easy-to-consume manner. Since memes instantly turn viral, it becomes crucial…