4 papers
Persona-Based Simulation of Human Opinion at Population Scale
Mao Li, Frederick G. Conrad
What does it mean to model a person, not merely to predict isolated responses, preferences, or behaviors, but to simulate how an individual interprets events, forms opinions, makes…
Vec2Summ: Text Summarization via Probabilistic Sentence Embeddings
Mao Li, Fred Conrad, Johann Gagnon-Bartsch
We propose Vec2Summ, a novel method for abstractive summarization that frames the task as semantic compression. Vec2Summ represents a document collection using a single mean vector…
FastLexRank: Efficient Lexical Ranking for Structuring Social Media Posts
Mao Li, Frederick Conrad, Johann Gagnon-Bartsch
We present FastLexRank\footnote{https://github.com/LiMaoUM/FastLexRank}, an efficient and scalable implementation of the LexRank algorithm for text ranking. Designed to address the…
Advancing Annotation of Stance in Social Media Posts: A Comparative Analysis of Large Language Models and Crowd Sourcing
Mao Li, Frederick Conrad
In the rapidly evolving landscape of Natural Language Processing (NLP), the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for automated text annotation in social media posts has garnered sig…