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Mental Health AI Safety Claims Must Preserve Temporal Evidence
Srimonti Dutta, Ratna Kandala
The safety of mental health AI is often judged at the wrong temporal scale. Current evaluations typically score isolated responses, endpoint outcomes, or aggregate dialogue quality…
Dharma, Data and Deception: An LLM-Powered Rhetorical Analysis of Cow-Urine Health Claims on YouTube
Sheza Munir, Ratna Kandala, Anamta Khan +2
Health misinformation remains one of the most pressing challenges on social media, particularly when cultural traditions intersect with scientific-sounding claims. These dynamics a…
When Cow Urine Cures Constipation on YouTube: Limits of LLMs in Detecting Culture-specific Health Misinformation
Anamta Khan, Ratna Kandala, Deepti +2
Social media platforms have become primary channels for health information in the Global South. Using gomutra (cow urine) discourse on YouTube in India as a case study, we present…
Designing Explainable Conversational Agentic Systems for Guaraní Speakers
Samantha Adorno, Akshata Kishore Moharir, Ratna Kandala
Although artificial intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) systems are often presented as universal solutions, their design remains predominantly text-first, unders…
The Nonverbal Gap: Toward Affective Computer Vision for Safer and More Equitable Online Dating
Ratna Kandala, Niva Manchanda, Akshata Kishore Moharir
Online dating has become the dominant way romantic relationships begin, yet current platforms strip the nonverbal cues: gaze, facial expression, body posture, response timing, that…
EchoGuard: An Agentic Framework with Knowledge-Graph Memory for Detecting Manipulative Communication in Longitudinal Dialogue
Ratna Kandala, Niva Manchanda, Akshata Kishore Moharir +1
Manipulative communication, such as gaslighting, guilt-tripping, and emotional coercion, is often difficult for individuals to recognize. Existing agentic AI systems lack the struc…
"What if she doesn't feel the same?" What Happens When We Ask AI for Relationship Advice
Niva Manchanda, Akshata Kishore Moharir, Ratna Kandala
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to provide support and advice in personal domains such as romantic relationships, yet little is known about user perception…
LLMs vs. Traditional Sentiment Tools in Psychology: An Evaluation on Belgian-Dutch Narratives
Ratna Kandala, Katie Hoemann
Understanding emotional nuances in everyday language is crucial for computational linguistics and emotion research. While traditional lexicon-based tools like LIWC and Pattern have…
From Explainability to Action: A Generative Operational Framework for Integrating XAI in Clinical Mental Health Screening
Ratna Kandala, Akshata Kishore Moharir, Divya Arvinda Nayak
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has been presented as the critical component for unlocking the potential of machine learning in mental health screening (MHS). However, a…
Cross-Lingual Mental Health Ontologies for Indian Languages: Bridging Patient Expression and Clinical Understanding through Explainable AI and Human-in-the-Loop Validation
Ananth Kandala, Ratna Kandala, Akshata Kishore Moharir +2
Mental health communication in India is linguistically fragmented, culturally diverse, and often underrepresented in clinical NLP. Current health ontologies and mental health resou…
Conjoined Predication and Scalar Implicature
Ratna Kandala
Magri (2016) investigates two puzzles arising from conjunction. Although Magri has proposed a solution to the second puzzle, the first remains unresolved. This first puzzle reveals…
A Unified Representation for Continuity and Discontinuity: Syntactic and Computational Motivations
Ratna Kandala, Prakash Mondal
This paper advances a unified representation of linguistic structure for three grammar formalisms, namely, Phrase Structure Grammar (PSG), Dependency Grammar (DG) and Categorial Gr…
Towards a Unified System of Representation for Continuity and Discontinuity in Natural Language
Ratna Kandala, Prakash Mondal
Syntactic discontinuity is a grammatical phenomenon in which a constituent is split into more than one part because of the insertion of an element which is not part of the constitu…
Are Lexicon-Based Tools Still the Gold Standard for Valence Analysis in Low-Resource Flemish?
Ratna Kandala, Katie Hoemann
Understanding the nuances in everyday language is pivotal for advancements in computational linguistics & emotions research. Traditional lexicon-based tools such as LIWC and Patter…
FLAME: A New Dataset on FLemish Accounts of Momentary Experiences
Ratna Kandala, Niels Vanhasbroeck, Katie Hoemann
We introduce FLAME (FLemish Accounts of Momentary Experiences), a corpus of nearly 25,000 personal narratives in Belgian-Dutch (Flemish), collected through experience sampling to s…