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Beyond a Global Norm: Personalizing Toxicity Sensitivity in Language Models Without Retraining
Rares A. C. Diaconescu, Iulia Slanina, Alina Florea +5
Reducing toxicity is often framed as a global alignment problem, yet perceptions of harmful language are subjective and context-dependent. We present the first comparative evaluati…
Not All Subjectivity Is the Same! Defining Desiderata for the Evaluation of Subjectivity in NLP
Urja Khurana, Michiel van der Meer, Enrico Liscio +2
Subjective judgments are part of several NLP datasets and recent work is increasingly prioritizing models whose outputs reflect this diversity of perspectives. Such responses allow…
Taking a SEAT: Predicting Value Interpretations from Sentiment, Emotion, Argument, and Topic Annotations
Adina Nicola Dobrinoiu, Ana Cristiana Marcu, Amir Homayounirad +2
Our interpretation of value concepts is shaped by our sociocultural background and lived experiences, and is thus subjective. Recognizing individual value interpretations is import…
Will Annotators Disagree? Identifying Subjectivity in Value-Laden Arguments
Amir Homayounirad, Enrico Liscio, Tong Wang +2
Aggregating multiple annotations into a single ground truth label may hide valuable insights into annotator disagreement, particularly in tasks where subjectivity plays a crucial r…
Reading Between the Signs: Predicting Future Suicidal Ideation from Adolescent Social Media Texts
Paul Blum, Enrico Liscio, Ruixuan Zhang +2
Suicide is a leading cause of death, yet predicting it remains a significant challenge. Risk factors such as depression or substance use are commonly used for prediction, but their…
Signs of Struggle: Spotting Cognitive Distortions across Language and Register
Abhishek Kuber, Enrico Liscio, Ruixuan Zhang +2
Rising mental health issues among youth have increased interest in automated approaches for detecting early signs of psychological distress in digital text. One key focus is the id…