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cs.CL2026

Adapting from Downturns: Prediction of Long-Term Conversational-Skill Development in Mental-Health Crisis Counselors

Vivian Nguyen, Lillian Lee, Elizabeth A. Olson +1

How do people learn to become better conversationalists? This question is especially important in the context of mental-health counseling, where conversational skills are essential…

cs.CL2025

Hanging in the Balance: Pivotal Moments in Crisis Counseling Conversations

Vivian Nguyen, Lillian Lee, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil

During a conversation, there can come certain moments where its outcome hangs in the balance. In these pivotal moments, how one responds can put the conversation on substantially d…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Taking a turn for the better: Conversation redirection throughout the course of mental-health therapy

Vivian Nguyen, Sang Min Jung, Lillian Lee +2

Mental-health therapy involves a complex conversation flow in which patients and therapists continuously negotiate what should be talked about next. For example, therapists might t…

cs.CL2022★ 6 cited

Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep? Humor "Understanding" Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest

Jack Hessel, Ana Marasović, Jena D. Hwang +5

Large neural networks can now generate jokes, but do they really "understand" humor? We challenge AI models with three tasks derived from the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest: ma…

cs.CL2021

TGIF: Tree-Graph Integrated-Format Parser for Enhanced UD with Two-Stage Generic- to Individual-Language Finetuning

Tianze Shi, Lillian Lee

We present our contribution to the IWPT 2021 shared task on parsing into enhanced Universal Dependencies. Our main system component is a hybrid tree-graph parser that integrates (a…

cs.CL2021

Transition-based Bubble Parsing: Improvements on Coordination Structure Prediction

Tianze Shi, Lillian Lee

We propose a transition-based bubble parser to perform coordination structure identification and dependency-based syntactic analysis simultaneously. Bubble representations were pro…