5 papers
How Ethos and Pathos Appeals Resonate in Reader Interpretations of Social Media Messages
Ewelina Gajewska, Katarzyna Budzynska, Jaroslaw Chudziak +1
Rhetorical strategies and their influence on audiences are often studied through social media posts and comments. However, this focus overlooks the universal audience, which is the…
Implicit Causal Graph Construction in Text via Chain Discovery
Liesbeth Allein, Marie-Francine Moens
Causal graphs in text are typically populated by observable, predefined events. In contrast, we study implicit causal graph construction from text by treating each described cause-…
ClimateCause: Complex and Implicit Causal Structures in Climate Reports
Liesbeth Allein, Nataly Pineda-Castañeda, Andrea Rocci +1
Understanding climate change requires reasoning over complex causal networks. Yet, existing causal discovery datasets predominantly capture explicit, direct causal relations. We in…
Assessing LLM Reasoning Through Implicit Causal Chain Discovery in Climate Discourse
Liesbeth Allein, Nataly Pineda-Castañeda, Andrea Rocci +1
How does a cause lead to an effect, and which intermediate causal steps explain their connection? This work scrutinizes the mechanistic causal reasoning capabilities of large langu…
Mimicking How Humans Interpret Out-of-Context Sentences Through Controlled Toxicity Decoding
Maria Mihaela Trusca, Liesbeth Allein
Interpretations of a single sentence can vary, particularly when its context is lost. This paper aims to simulate how readers perceive content with varying toxicity levels by gener…