collaborators

7 papers

cs.LG2026

SERUM: State Extraction and Refinement for User Modeling

Andy J. Phu, James Mooney, Karin de Langis +2

Agentic assistants capable of proactive, personalized interactions require structured models of user intent and workflow. However, building these models from raw, unstructured scre…

cs.CL2026

Effects of Varying LLM Access on Essay Writing Behavior

Julia Christenson, Karin de Langis, Shirley Anugrah Hayati +1

Investigating the degree to which large language models (LLMs) affect teaching and learning in universities can help identify strategies for integrating LLMs in a way that supports…

cs.CL2025

Mary, the Cheeseburger-Eating Vegetarian: Do LLMs Recognize Incoherence in Narratives?

Karin de Langis, Püren Öncel, Ryan Peters +4

Leveraging a dataset of paired narratives, we investigate the extent to which large language models (LLMs) can reliably separate incoherent and coherent stories. A probing study fi…

cs.CL2025

Tracing How Annotators Think: Augmenting Preference Judgments with Reading Processes

Karin de Langis, William Walker, Khanh Chi Le +1

We propose an annotation approach that captures not only labels but also the reading process underlying annotators' decisions, e.g., what parts of the text they focus on, re-read o…

cs.CL2025

Strong Memory, Weak Control: An Empirical Study of Executive Functioning in LLMs

Karin de Langis, Jong Inn Park, Bin Hu +5

Working memory, or the ability to hold and manipulate information in the mind, is a critical component of human intelligence and executive functioning. It is correlated with perfor…

cs.CL2025

LawFlow: Collecting and Simulating Lawyers' Thought Processes on Business Formation Case Studies

Debarati Das, Khanh Chi Le, Ritik Sachin Parkar +8

Legal practitioners, particularly those early in their careers, face complex, high-stakes tasks that require adaptive, context-sensitive reasoning. While AI holds promise in suppor…