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most citedPersonalized Attacks of Social Engineering in Multi-turn Conversations: LLM Agents for Simulation and Detection

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15 papers

cs.CL2026

Empath: Tracing Multi-Level Emotion Dynamics in Crisis Counseling Dialogues

Ziwei Gong, Yuchen Huang, Wen Liang +4

Emotion dynamics are critical for understanding crisis-support conversations, yet most computational work treats emotion as static utterance-level labels. We introduce EMPATH, a fr…

cs.CL2026

An Interactive Paradigm for Deep Research

Lin Ai, Victor S. Bursztyn, Xiang Chen +2

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled deep research systems that synthesize comprehensive, report-style answers to open-ended queries by combining retrieval,…

cs.CL2026

SURE: Synergistic Uncertainty-aware Reasoning for Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations

Yiqiang Cai, Chengyan Wu, Bolei Ma +4

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations (MERC) requires integrating multimodal signals while being robust to noise and modeling contextual reasoning. Existing approaches of…

cs.CL2026

Factuality on Demand: Controlling the Factuality-Informativeness Trade-off in Text Generation

Ziwei Gong, Yanda Chen, Julia Hirschberg +4

Large language models (LLMs) encode knowledge with varying degrees of confidence. When responding to queries, models face an inherent trade-off: they can generate responses that ar…

cs.CL2026

Detecting Mental Manipulation in Speech via Synthetic Multi-Speaker Dialogue

Run Chen, Wen Liang, Ziwei Gong +2

Mental manipulation, the strategic use of language to covertly influence or exploit others, is a newly emerging task in computational social reasoning. Prior work has focused exclu…

cs.SD2025

Learning More with Less: Self-Supervised Approaches for Low-Resource Speech Emotion Recognition

Ziwei Gong, Pengyuan Shi, Kaan Donbekci +5

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has seen significant progress with deep learning, yet remains challenging for Low-Resource Languages (LRLs) due to the scarcity of annotated data.…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations: A Survey of Methods, Trends, Challenges and Prospects

Chengyan Wu, Yiqiang Cai, Yang Liu +5

While text-based emotion recognition methods have achieved notable success, real-world dialogue systems often demand a more nuanced emotional understanding than any single modality…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

A Review of Incorporating Psychological Theories in LLMs

Zizhou Liu, Ziwei Gong, Lin Ai +5

Psychological insights have long shaped pivotal NLP breakthroughs, from attention mechanisms to reinforcement learning and social modeling. As Large Language Models (LLMs) develop,…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

Personalized Attacks of Social Engineering in Multi-turn Conversations: LLM Agents for Simulation and Detection

Tharindu Kumarage, Cameron Johnson, Jadie Adams +7

The rapid advancement of conversational agents, particularly chatbots powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), poses a significant risk of social engineering (SE) attacks on social…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Pragmatics in the Era of Large Language Models: A Survey on Datasets, Evaluation, Opportunities and Challenges

Bolei Ma, Yuting Li, Wei Zhou +7

Understanding pragmatics-the use of language in context-is crucial for developing NLP systems capable of interpreting nuanced language use. Despite recent advances in language tech…

cs.CL2025

Akan Cinematic Emotions (ACE): A Multimodal Multi-party Dataset for Emotion Recognition in Movie Dialogues

David Sasu, Zehui Wu, Ziwei Gong +5

In this paper, we introduce the Akan Conversation Emotion (ACE) dataset, the first multimodal emotion dialogue dataset for an African language, addressing the significant lack of r…

cs.CL2024

ToxiLab: How Well Do Open-Source LLMs Generate Synthetic Toxicity Data?

Zheng Hui, Zhaoxiao Guo, Hang Zhao +5

Effective toxic content detection relies heavily on high-quality and diverse data, which serve as the foundation for robust content moderation models. Synthetic data has become a c…

cs.CL2024

NovAScore: A New Automated Metric for Evaluating Document Level Novelty

Lin Ai, Ziwei Gong, Harshsaiprasad Deshpande +4

The rapid expansion of online content has intensified the issue of information redundancy, underscoring the need for solutions that can identify genuinely new information. Despite…

cs.CL2024

CREAM: Comparison-Based Reference-Free ELO-Ranked Automatic Evaluation for Meeting Summarization

Ziwei Gong, Lin Ai, Harshsaiprasad Deshpande +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred interest in automatic evaluation methods for summarization, offering a faster, more cost-effective alternative to human evaluation. Howeve…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Beyond Silent Letters: Amplifying LLMs in Emotion Recognition with Vocal Nuances

Zehui Wu, Ziwei Gong, Lin Ai +3

Emotion recognition in speech is a challenging multimodal task that requires understanding both verbal content and vocal nuances. This paper introduces a novel approach to emotion…