4 papers
Good Intentions Beyond ACL: Who Does NLP for Social Good, and Where?
Grace LeFevre, Qingcheng Zeng, Adam Leif +3
The social impact of Natural Language Processing (NLP) is increasingly important, with a rising community focus on initiatives related to NLP for Social Good (NLP4SG). Indeed, in r…
Leveraging Human Production-Interpretation Asymmetries to Test LLM Cognitive Plausibility
Suet-Ying Lam, Qingcheng Zeng, Jingyi Wu +1
Whether large language models (LLMs) process language similarly to humans has been the subject of much theoretical and practical debate. We examine this question through the lens o…
Sympathy over Polarization: A Computational Discourse Analysis of Social Media Posts about the July 2024 Trump Assassination Attempt
Qingcheng Zeng, Guanhong Liu, Zhaoqian Xue +4
On July 13, 2024, at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, someone attempted to assassinate Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump. This attempt sparked a large-scale discussion…
Causal Micro-Narratives
Mourad Heddaya, Qingcheng Zeng, Chenhao Tan +2
We present a novel approach to classify causal micro-narratives from text. These narratives are sentence-level explanations of the cause(s) and/or effect(s) of a target subject. Th…