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Red and blue language: Word choices in the Trump & Harris 2024 presidential debate
Philipp Wicke, Marianna M. Bolognesi
Political debates are a peculiar type of political discourse, in which candidates directly confront one another, addressing not only the the moderator's questions, but also their o…
Towards Language-Based Modulation of Assistive Robots through Multimodal Models
Philipp Wicke, Lüfti Kerem Şenel, Shengqiang Zhang +4
In the field of Geriatronics, enabling effective and transparent communication between humans and robots is crucial for enhancing the acceptance and performance of assistive robots…
LMs stand their Ground: Investigating the Effect of Embodiment in Figurative Language Interpretation by Language Models
Philipp Wicke
Figurative language is a challenge for language models since its interpretation is based on the use of words in a way that deviates from their conventional order and meaning. Yet,…
A Crosslingual Investigation of Conceptualization in 1335 Languages
Yihong Liu, Haotian Ye, Leonie Weissweiler +4
Languages differ in how they divide up the world into concepts and words; e.g., in contrast to English, Swahili has a single concept for `belly' and `womb'. We investigate these di…
Immune Moral Models? Pro-Social Rule Breaking as a Moral Enhancement Approach for Ethical AI
Rajitha Ramanayake, Philipp Wicke, Vivek Nallur
We are moving towards a future where Artificial Intelligence (AI) based agents make many decisions on behalf of humans. From healthcare decision making to social media censoring, t…
Creative Action at a Distance: A Conceptual Framework for Embodied Performance With Robotic Actors
Philipp Wicke, Tony Veale
Acting, stand-up and dancing are creative, embodied performances that nonetheless follow a script. Unless experimental or improvised, the performers draw their movements from much…
Covid-19 Discourse on Twitter: How the Topics, Sentiments, Subjectivity, and Figurative Frames Changed Over Time
Philipp Wicke, Marianna M. Bolognesi
The words we use to talk about the current epidemiological crisis on social media can inform us on how we are conceptualizing the pandemic and how we are reacting to its developmen…
Framing COVID-19: How we conceptualize and discuss the pandemic on Twitter
Philipp Wicke, Marianna M. Bolognesi
Doctors and nurses in these weeks are busy in the trenches, fighting against a new invisible enemy: Covid-19. Cities are locked down and civilians are besieged in their own homes,…