Search Results for author: Allison Lahnala

Found 9 papers, 3 papers with code

CAISA at WASSA 2022: Adapter-Tuning for Empathy Prediction

1 code implementation WASSA (ACL) 2022 Allison Lahnala, Charles Welch, Lucie Flek

We build a system that leverages adapters, a light weight and efficient method for leveraging large language models to perform the task Em- pathy and Distress prediction tasks for WASSA 2022.

Challenges of GPT-3-based Conversational Agents for Healthcare

no code implementations28 Aug 2023 Fabian Lechner, Allison Lahnala, Charles Welch, Lucie Flek

The potential to provide patients with faster information access while allowing medical specialists to concentrate on critical tasks makes medical domain dialog agents appealing.

Question Answering

A Critical Reflection and Forward Perspective on Empathy and Natural Language Processing

no code implementations29 Oct 2022 Allison Lahnala, Charles Welch, David Jurgens, Lucie Flek

We review the state of research on empathy in natural language processing and identify the following issues: (1) empathy definitions are absent or abstract, which (2) leads to low construct validity and reproducibility.

Mitigating Toxic Degeneration with Empathetic Data: Exploring the Relationship Between Toxicity and Empathy

no code implementations NAACL 2022 Allison Lahnala, Charles Welch, Béla Neuendorf, Lucie Flek

Large pre-trained neural language models have supported the effectiveness of many NLP tasks, yet are still prone to generating toxic language hindering the safety of their use.

Text Generation

Investigating User Radicalization: A Novel Dataset for Identifying Fine-Grained Temporal Shifts in Opinion

1 code implementation LREC 2022 Flora Sakketou, Allison Lahnala, Liane Vogel, Lucie Flek

The dataset includes a sufficient amount of stance polarity and intensity labels per user over time and within entire conversational threads, thus making subtle opinion fluctuations detectable both in long term and in short term.

Stance Detection

Modeling Proficiency with Implicit User Representations

no code implementations15 Oct 2021 Kim Breitwieser, Allison Lahnala, Charles Welch, Lucie Flek, Martin Potthast

We introduce the problem of proficiency modeling: Given a user's posts on a social media platform, the task is to identify the subset of posts or topics for which the user has some level of proficiency.

Chord Embeddings: Analyzing What They Capture and Their Role for Next Chord Prediction and Artist Attribute Prediction

no code implementations4 Feb 2021 Allison Lahnala, Gauri Kambhatla, Jiajun Peng, Matthew Whitehead, Gillian Minnehan, Eric Guldan, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Anıl Çamcı, Rada Mihalcea

In the first case study, we demonstrate that using chord embeddings in a next chord prediction task yields predictions that more closely match those by experienced musicians.

Attribute

Expressive Interviewing: A Conversational System for Coping with COVID-19

no code implementations EMNLP (NLP-COVID19) 2020 Charles Welch, Allison Lahnala, Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Siqi Shen, Sarah Seraj, Larry An, Kenneth Resnicow, James Pennebaker, Rada Mihalcea

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns for many regarding personal and public health implications, financial security and economic stability.

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