6 papers
From Word Sequences to Behavioral Sequences: Adapting Modeling and Evaluation Paradigms for Longitudinal NLP
Adithya V Ganesan, Vasudha Varadarajan, Oscar NE Kjell +6
While NLP typically treats documents as independent and unordered samples, in longitudinal studies, this assumption rarely holds: documents are nested within authors and ordered in…
When Support Escalates Distress: Regulation and Escalation in LLM Responses to Venting and Advice-Seeking
Vivienne Bihe Chi, Adithya V Ganesan, Ryan L Boyd +2
Large language models are increasingly used for mental health support, yet little is known about whether their responses are psychologically safe across different help-seeking styl…
Who We Are, Where We Are: Mental Health at the Intersection of Person, Situation, and Large Language Models
Nikita Soni, August HÃ¥kan Nilsson, Syeda Mahwish +3
Mental health is not a fixed trait but a dynamic process shaped by the interplay between individual dispositions and situational contexts. Building on interactionist and constructi…
Unifying the Extremes: Developing a Unified Model for Detecting and Predicting Extremist Traits and Radicalization
Allison Lahnala, Vasudha Varadarajan, Lucie Flek +2
The proliferation of ideological movements into extremist factions via social media has become a global concern. While radicalization has been studied extensively within the contex…
WhiSPA: Semantically and Psychologically Aligned Whisper with Self-Supervised Contrastive and Student-Teacher Learning
Rajath Rao, Adithya Ganesan, Oscar Kjell +10
Current speech encoding pipelines often rely on an additional text-based LM to get robust representations of human communication, even though SotA speech-to-text models often have…
Capturing Human Cognitive Styles with Language: Towards an Experimental Evaluation Paradigm
Vasudha Varadarajan, Syeda Mahwish, Xiaoran Liu +4
While NLP models often seek to capture cognitive states via language, the validity of predicted states is determined by comparing them to annotations created without access the cog…