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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…