3 papers
cs.CY2026
Persona-Based Simulation of Human Opinion at Population Scale
Mao Li, Frederick G. Conrad
What does it mean to model a person, not merely to predict isolated responses, preferences, or behaviors, but to simulate how an individual interprets events, forms opinions, makes…
cs.CL2025
Vec2Summ: Text Summarization via Probabilistic Sentence Embeddings
Mao Li, Fred Conrad, Johann Gagnon-Bartsch
We propose Vec2Summ, a novel method for abstractive summarization that frames the task as semantic compression. Vec2Summ represents a document collection using a single mean vector…
cs.CL2024
FastLexRank: Efficient Lexical Ranking for Structuring Social Media Posts
Mao Li, Frederick Conrad, Johann Gagnon-Bartsch
We present FastLexRank\footnote{https://github.com/LiMaoUM/FastLexRank}, an efficient and scalable implementation of the LexRank algorithm for text ranking. Designed to address the…