6 papers
PragAlign: Feedback-Guided Pragmatic Alignment for Controlled Synthetic Dialogue Generation
Smitha Muthya Sudheendra, Jaideep Srivastava
Synthetic dialogue generation can support research in privacy-restricted service settings, but generated conversations must preserve communicative intent, affective meaning, and na…
When Decodability Is Not Enough: Logical Validity Representations, Behavioral Dissociation, and Causal Tests in Language Models
Smitha Muthya Sudheendra, Jaideep Srivastava
Large language models can look capable of logical reasoning, but correct or incorrect answers alone tell us little about what the model represents internally. We study logical veri…
ReasonScaffold: A Scaffolded Reasoning-based Annotation Protocol for Human-AI Co-Annotation
Smitha Muthya Sudheendra, Jaideep Srivastava
Human annotation is central to NLP evaluation, yet subjective tasks often exhibit substantial variability across annotators. While large language models (LLMs) can provide structur…
Beyond Citations: A Cross-Domain Metric for Dataset Impact and Shareability
Smitha Muthya Sudheendra, Zhongxing Zhang, Wenwen Cao +2
The scientific community increasingly relies on open data sharing, yet existing metrics inadequately capture the true impact of datasets as research outputs. Traditional measures,…
CMV-Fuse: Cross Modal-View Fusion of AMR, Syntax, and Knowledge Representations for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis
Smitha Muthya Sudheendra, Mani Deep Cherukuri, Jaideep Srivastava
Natural language understanding inherently depends on integrating multiple complementary perspectives spanning from surface syntax to deep semantics and world knowledge. However, cu…
Impact Of Emotions on Information Seeking And Sharing Behaviors During Pandemic
Smitha Muthya Sudheendra, Hao Xu, Jisu Huh +1
We propose a novel approach to assess the public's coping behavior during the COVID-19 outbreak by examining the emotions. Specifically, we explore (1) changes in the public's emot…