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most citedMulti-Task Learning with Sentiment, Emotion, and Target Detection to Recognize Hate Speech and Offensive Language

24 citations · 46 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.HC2026

Who Trusts AI with Their Emotions? Trust Formation and Sociodemographic Variation in LLM Use for Emotional Support

Natalia Amat-Lefort, Mert Yazan, Amanda Cercas Curry +1

Trust in AI for emotional support is not universal; it is shaped by who users are, where they come from, and what they value. Yet research in this area lacks validated psychometric…

cs.CY2026

Affective AI Safety: The Missing Piece in LLM Safety

Carolin Ifländer, Alba Curry, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco +1

AI safety research has focused predominantly on epistemic and physical harms (e.g., misinformation, bias, system reliability) while the risks that arise from AI systems' engagement…

cs.CY2026★ 1 cited

Responsible Evaluation of AI for Mental Health

Hiba Arnaout, Anmol Goel, H. Andrew Schwartz +13

Although artificial intelligence (AI) shows growing promise for mental health care, current approaches to evaluating AI tools in this domain remain fragmented and poorly aligned wi…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

No for Some, Yes for Others: Persona Prompts and Other Sources of False Refusal in Language Models

Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Paul Röttger, Nino Scherrer +3

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into our daily lives and personalized. However, LLM personalization might also increase unintended side effects. Recent wor…

cs.CL2025

MSTS: A Multimodal Safety Test Suite for Vision-Language Models

Paul Röttger, Giuseppe Attanasio, Felix Friedrich +19

Vision-language models (VLMs), which process image and text inputs, are increasingly integrated into chat assistants and other consumer AI applications. Without proper safeguards,…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Language Model Council: Democratically Benchmarking Foundation Models on Highly Subjective Tasks

Justin Zhao, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Benjamin Genchel +1

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve, evaluating them remains a persistent challenge. Many recent evaluations use LLMs as judges to score outputs from other LLMs, oft…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Angry Men, Sad Women: Large Language Models Reflect Gendered Stereotypes in Emotion Attribution

Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Amanda Cercas Curry, Alba Curry +2

Large language models (LLMs) reflect societal norms and biases, especially about gender. While societal biases and stereotypes have been extensively researched in various NLP appli…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

A Tale of Pronouns: Interpretability Informs Gender Bias Mitigation for Fairer Instruction-Tuned Machine Translation

Giuseppe Attanasio, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Debora Nozza +1

Recent instruction fine-tuned models can solve multiple NLP tasks when prompted to do so, with machine translation (MT) being a prominent use case. However, current research often…

cs.CL2022★ 14 cited

Natural Language Inference Prompts for Zero-shot Emotion Classification in Text across Corpora

Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, María-Teresa Martín-Valdivia, Roman Klinger

Within textual emotion classification, the set of relevant labels depends on the domain and application scenario and might not be known at the time of model development. This confl…

cs.CL2021★ 24 cited

Multi-Task Learning with Sentiment, Emotion, and Target Detection to Recognize Hate Speech and Offensive Language

Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Sercan Halat, Sebastian Padó +1

The recognition of hate speech and offensive language (HOF) is commonly formulated as a classification task to decide if a text contains HOF. We investigate whether HOF detection c…