João Sedoc

Knowing When Not to Answer: Lightweight KB-Aligned OOD Detection for Safe RAG ACL 2026 The Illusion of Empathy: How AI Chatbots Shape Conversation Perception AAAI 2025 Evolving Stances on Reproducibility: A Longitudinal Study of NLP and ML Researchers’ Views and Experience of Reproducibility EMNLP 2025 Item Response Theory for Natural Language Processing EACL 2024 Large Human Language Models: A Need and the Challenges NAACL 2024 From Text to Context: Contextualizing Language with Humans, Groups, and Communities for Socially Aware NLP NAACL 2024 On the Role of Summary Content Units in Text Summarization Evaluation NAACL 2024 Findings of WASSA 2024 Shared Task on Empathy and Personality Detection in Interactions ACL 2024 Modeling Human Subjectivity in LLMs Using Explicit and Implicit Human Factors in Personas EMNLP 2024 Conditioning on Dialog Acts improves Empathy Style Transfer EMNLP 2023 Conceptor-Aided Debiasing of Large Language Models EMNLP 2023 A Needle in a Haystack: An Analysis of High-Agreement Workers on MTurk for Summarization ACL 2023 Common Law Annotations: Investigating the Stability of Dialog System Output Annotations ACL 2023 Findings of WASSA 2023 Shared Task on Empathy, Emotion and Personality Detection in Conversation and Reactions to News Articles ACL 2023 Linear Connectivity Reveals Generalization Strategies ICLR 2023 Benchmark Data and Evaluation Framework for Intent Discovery Around COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy EACL 2023 Automatic Reflection Generation for Peer-to-Peer Counseling EMNLP 2023 An Integrative Survey on Mental Health Conversational Agents to Bridge Computer Science and Medical Perspectives EMNLP 2023 Measuring the Language of Self-Disclosure across Corpora ACL 2022 Automatic Document Selection for Efficient Encoder Pretraining EMNLP 2022 Inducing Generalizable and Interpretable Lexica EMNLP 2022 WASSA 2022 Shared Task: Predicting Empathy, Emotion and Personality in Reaction to News Stories ACL 2022 Gendered Language in Resumes and its Implications for Algorithmic Bias in Hiring NAACL 2022 GEMv2: Multilingual NLG Benchmarking in a Single Line of Code EMNLP 2022 Clustering Examples in Multi-Dataset Benchmarks with Item Response Theory ACL 2022 Multi-Emotion Classification for Song Lyrics EACL 2021 The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics ACL 2021 Decoding Methods for Neural Narrative Generation ACL 2021 Topic Modeling for Maternal Health Using Reddit EACL 2021 WASSA 2021 Shared Task: Predicting Empathy and Emotion in Reaction to News Stories EACL 2021 The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics IJCNLP 2021 Decoding Methods for Neural Narrative Generation IJCNLP 2021 Measuring the ‘I don’t know’ Problem through the Lens of Gricean Quantity NAACL 2021 SMRT Chatbots: Improving Non-Task-Oriented Dialog with Simulated Multiple Reference Training EMNLP 2020 Incremental Neural Coreference Resolution in Constant Memory EMNLP 2020 COD3S: Diverse Generation with Discrete Semantic Signatures EMNLP 2020 Learning Emotion from 100 Observations: Unexpected Robustness of Deep Learning under Strong Data Limitations COLING 2020 Using the Poly-encoder for a COVID-19 Question Answering System EMNLP 2020 Collecting Verified COVID-19 Question Answer Pairs EMNLP 2020 Item Response Theory for Efficient Human Evaluation of Chatbots EMNLP 2020 Conceptor Debiasing of Word Representations Evaluated on WEAT ACL 2019 Comparison of Diverse Decoding Methods from Conditional Language Models ACL 2019 Complexity-Weighted Loss and Diverse Reranking for Sentence Simplification NAACL 2019 Continual Learning for Sentence Representations Using Conceptors NAACL 2019 ChatEval: A Tool for Chatbot Evaluation NAACL 2019 The Role of Protected Class Word Lists in Bias Identification of Contextualized Word Representations ACL 2019 Unsupervised Post-Processing of Word Vectors via Conceptor Negation AAAI 2019 Getting in Shape: Word Embedding SubSpaces IJCAI 2019 Modeling Empathy and Distress in Reaction to News Stories EMNLP 2018 Semantic Word Clusters Using Signed Spectral Clustering ACL 2017 Predicting Emotional Word Ratings using Distributional Representations and Signed Clustering EACL 2017