3 papers
cs.CL2025
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…
cs.CL2025
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…
cs.CL2025
Funzac at CoMeDi Shared Task: Modeling Annotator Disagreement from Word-In-Context Perspectives
Olufunke O. Sarumi, Charles Welch, Lucie Flek +1
In this work, we evaluate annotator disagreement in Word-in-Context (WiC) tasks exploring the relationship between contextual meaning and disagreement as part of the CoMeDi shared…