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Verifying Rumors via Stance-Aware Structural Modeling
Gibson Nkhata, Uttamasha Anjally Oyshi, Quan Mai +1
Verifying rumors on social media is critical for mitigating the spread of false information. The stances of conversation replies often provide important cues to determine a rumor's…
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Mind2: Mind-to-Mind Emotional Support System with Bidirectional Cognitive Discourse Analysis
Shi Yin Hong, Uttamasha Oyshi, Quan Mai +2
Emotional support (ES) systems alleviate users' mental distress by generating strategic supportive dialogues based on diverse user situations. However, ES systems are limited in th…
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Boolean-aware Attention for Dense Retrieval
Quan Mai, Susan Gauch, Douglas Adams
We present Boolean-aware attention, a novel attention mechanism that dynamically adjusts token focus based on Boolean operators (e.g., and, or, not). Our model employs specialized…