4 papers
Multimodal QUD: Inquisitive Questions from Scientific Figures
Yating Wu, William Rudman, Venkata S Govindarajan +2
Discourse comprehension in complex documents often involves continuously posing and resolving Questions Under Discussion (QUDs). While QUD frameworks have so far focused on text, s…
Dark & Stormy: Modeling Humor in Sentences from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Venkata S Govindarajan, Laura Biester
Textual humor is enormously diverse and computational studies need to account for this range, including intentionally bad humor. In this paper, we curate and analyze a novel corpus…
Measuring Lexical Diversity of Synthetic Data Generated through Fine-Grained Persona Prompting
Gauri Kambhatla, Chantal Shaib, Venkata Govindarajan
Fine-grained personas have recently been used for generating 'diverse' synthetic data for pre-training and supervised fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs). In this work, we…
Do they mean 'us'? Interpreting Referring Expressions in Intergroup Bias
Venkata S Govindarajan, Matianyu Zang, Kyle Mahowald +2
The variations between in-group and out-group speech (intergroup bias) are subtle and could underlie many social phenomena like stereotype perpetuation and implicit bias. In this p…