3 papers
cs.CL2026
A Cross-lingual Comparison of Human and Classification Model Entrainment Behavior in Code-switched Speech Settings
Debasmita Bhattacharya, Siying Ding, Alayna Nguyen +1
Conversational entrainment is well-studied in monolingual and written contexts, but remains underexplored in spoken code-switching (CSW). We present a novel cross-lingual analysis…
cs.CL2025
Mixed Signals: Understanding Model Disagreement in Multimodal Empathy Detection
Maya Srikanth, Run Chen, Julia Hirschberg
Multimodal models play a key role in empathy detection, but their performance can suffer when modalities provide conflicting cues. To understand these failures, we examine cases wh…
cs.CL2025
SYNTHEMPATHY: A Scalable Empathy Corpus Generated Using LLMs Without Any Crowdsourcing
Run Chen, Jun Shin, Julia Hirschberg
Previous research has shown that humans are more receptive towards language models that that exhibit empathetic behavior. While empathy is essential for developing helpful dialogue…