1 code implementation • 20 Mar 2024 • Do June Min, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Kenneth Resnicow, Rada Mihalcea
In this paper, we study the problem of multi-reward reinforcement learning to jointly optimize for multiple text qualities for natural language generation.
no code implementations • 14 Nov 2023 • Do June Min, Verónica Pérez-Rosas, Kenneth Resnicow, Rada Mihalcea
We introduce VERVE, a template-based rewriting system with paraphrase-augmented training and adaptive template updating.
1 code implementation • Findings (ACL) 2021 • Allison Lahnala, Yuntian Zhao, Charles Welch, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Lawrence An, Kenneth Resnicow, Rada Mihalcea, Verónica Pérez-Rosas
A growing number of people engage in online health forums, making it important to understand the quality of the advice they receive.
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.
no code implementations • ACL 2019 • Ver{\'o}nica P{\'e}rez-Rosas, Xinyi Wu, Kenneth Resnicow, Rada Mihalcea
Our results suggest important language differences in low- and high-quality counseling, which we further use to derive linguistic features able to capture the differences between the two groups.
no code implementations • ACL 2017 • Ver{\'o}nica P{\'e}rez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea, Kenneth Resnicow, Satinder Singh, Lawrence An
Counselor empathy is associated with better outcomes in psychology and behavioral counseling.
no code implementations • EACL 2017 • Ver{\'o}nica P{\'e}rez-Rosas, Rada Mihalcea, Kenneth Resnicow, Satinder Singh, Lawrence An, Kathy J. Goggin, Delwyn Catley
As the number of people receiving psycho-therapeutic treatment increases, the automatic evaluation of counseling practice arises as an important challenge in the clinical domain.