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The Plot Thins: Uniformity and Linearity in Literary Summaries
Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Sil Hamilton, David Mimno +1
Works of literature are complicated; they balance plot, suspense, surprise, and artistic expression. Summaries of literature prioritize plot, and therefore may deviate from their s…
Adopt Adapt: Longitudinal Analyses of LLM Conversations in the Wild
Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Kiran Tomlinson
Although a growing body of research has begun to describe user--LLM interactions, the picture it paints is largely static; little is known about how individual users change their b…
Attention Flows: Tracing LLM Conceptual Engagement via Story Summaries
Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Sil Hamilton, David Mimno +1
Although LLM context lengths have grown, there is evidence that their ability to integrate information across long-form texts has not kept pace. We evaluate one such understanding…
Are You There God? Lightweight Narrative Annotation of Christian Fiction with LMs
Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Brian W. Haggard, Mia Ferrante +2
In addition to its more widely studied cultural movements, American Evangelicalism has a well-developed but less externally visible literary side. Christian Fiction, however, has b…
Too Long, Didn't Model: Decomposing LLM Long-Context Understanding With Novels
Sil Hamilton, Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Matthew Wilkens +1
Although the context length of large language models (LLMs) has increased to millions of tokens, evaluating their effectiveness beyond needle-in-a-haystack approaches has proven di…
The Zero Body Problem: Probing LLM Use of Sensory Language
Rebecca M. M. Hicke, Sil Hamilton, David Mimno
Sensory language expresses embodied experiences ranging from taste and sound to excitement and stomachache. This language is of interest to scholars from a wide range of domains in…