5 papers
Examining the Utility of Self-disclosure Types for Modeling Annotators of Social Norms
Kieran Henderson, Kian Omoomi, Vasudha Varadarajan +2
Recent work has explored the use of personal information in the form of persona sentences or self-disclosures to improve modeling of individual characteristics and prediction of an…
Unifying the Extremes: Developing a Unified Model for Detecting and Predicting Extremist Traits and Radicalization
Allison Lahnala, Vasudha Varadarajan, Lucie Flek +2
The proliferation of ideological movements into extremist factions via social media has become a global concern. While radicalization has been studied extensively within the contex…
ISCA: A Framework for Interview-Style Conversational Agents
Charles Welch, Allison Lahnala, Vasudha Varadarajan +4
We present a low-compute non-generative system for implementing interview-style conversational agents which can be used to facilitate qualitative data collection through controlled…
The Illusion of Empathy: How AI Chatbots Shape Conversation Perception
Tingting Liu, Salvatore Giorgi, Ankit Aich +4
As AI chatbots increasingly incorporate empathy, understanding user-centered perceptions of chatbot empathy and its impact on conversation quality remains essential yet under-explo…
The Muddy Waters of Modeling Empathy in Language: The Practical Impacts of Theoretical Constructs
Allison Lahnala, Charles Welch, David Jurgens +1
Conceptual operationalizations of empathy in NLP are varied, with some having specific behaviors and properties, while others are more abstract. How these variations relate to one…