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Social Story Frames: Contextual Reasoning about Narrative Intent and Reception
Joel Mire, Maria Antoniak, Steven R. Wilson +4
Reading stories evokes rich interpretive, affective, and evaluative responses, such as inferences about narrative intent or judgments about characters. Yet, computational models of…
Where Do People Tell Stories Online? Story Detection Across Online Communities
Maria Antoniak, Joel Mire, Maarten Sap +2
Story detection in online communities is a challenging task as stories are scattered across communities and interwoven with non-storytelling spans within a single text. We address…
Rejected Dialects: Biases Against African American Language in Reward Models
Joel Mire, Zubin Trivadi Aysola, Daniel Chechelnitsky +3
Preference alignment via reward models helps build safe, helpful, and reliable large language models (LLMs). However, subjectivity in preference judgments and the lack of represent…
HEART-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs
Jocelyn Shen, Joel Mire, Hae Won Park +2
Empathy serves as a cornerstone in enabling prosocial behaviors, and can be evoked through sharing of personal experiences in stories. While empathy is influenced by narrative cont…