2025

• Judging Quality Across Languages: A Multilingual Approach to Pretraining Data Filtering with Language Models
  Mehdi Ali, Manuel Brack, Max Lübbering, Elias Wendt, Abbas Goher Khan, Richard Rutmann, Alex Jude, Maurice Kraus, Alexander Arno Weber, David Kaczér, Florian Mai, Lucie Flek, Rafet Sifa, Nicolas Flores-Herr, Joachim Köhler, Patrick Schramowski, Michael Fromm, Kristian Kersting
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• Does Preprocessing Matter? An Analysis of Acoustic Feature Importance in Deep Learning for Dialect Classification
  L Fischbach, C Kleen, L Flek, A Lameli
  Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics...
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• Superalignment with Dynamic Human Values
  F Mai, D Kaczér, NK Corrêa, L Flek
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.13621
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• The Muddy Waters of Modeling Empathy in Language: The Practical Impacts of Theoretical Constructs
  A Lahnala, C Welch, D Jurgens, L Flek
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.14981 (2025)
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• Do LLMs Provide Consistent Answers to Health-Related Questions across Languages?
  IB Schlicht, Z Zhao, B Sayin, L Flek, P Rosso
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.14719 (2025)
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• ArithmAttack: Evaluating Robustness of LLMs to Noisy Context in Math Problem Solving
  Abedin, Zain Ul, et al.
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.08203 (2025)
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• Enforcing Fundamental Relations via Adversarial Attacks on Input Parameter Correlations
  T Saala, L Flek, A Jung, A Karimi, A Schmidt, M Schott, P Soldin, ...
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.05588 (2025)
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• Exploring Robustness of LLMs to Sociodemographically-Conditioned Paraphrasing.
  Arora, Pulkit, Akbar Karimi, and Lucie Flek.  
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.08276 (2025).
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• Unifying the Extremes: Developing a Unified Model for Detecting and Predicting Extremist Traits and Radicalization
  A Lahnala, V Varadarajan, L Flek, HA Schwartz, RL Boyd
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04820 (2025)
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• Exploring Robustness of Multilingual LLMs on Real-World Noisy Data.
  Aliakbarzadeh, Amirhossein, Lucie Flek, and Akbar Karimi.
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.08322 (2025).
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• MultiProp Framework: Ensemble Models for Enhanced Cross-Lingual Propaganda Detection in Social Media and News using Data Augmentation, Text Segmentation, and Meta-Learning
  F Aldabbas, S Ashraf, R Sifa, L Flek
  Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script, 7-22
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• A Comparison of Data Augmentation Techniques for Text Classification
  Peyman Hassani Jalilian, Akbar Karimi

2024

• Explaining GPT-4's Schema of Depression Using Machine Behavior Analysis
  AV Ganesan, V Varadarajan, YK Lal, VC Eijsbroek, K Kjell, ONE Kjell, ...
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.13800 (2024)
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• How large language models can reshape collective intelligence
  Burton, Jason W and Lopez-Lopez, Ezequiel and Hechtlinger, Shahar and Rahwan, Zoe and Aeschbach, Samuel and Bakker, Michiel A and Becker, Joshua A and Berditchevskaia, Aleks and Berger, Julian and Brinkmann, Levin and others
  Nature Human Behaviour 2024
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• Probing the Robustness of Theory of Mind in Large Language Models
  C Nickel, L Schrewe, L Flek
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.06271 (2024)
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• Do Multilingual Large Language Models Mitigate Stereotype Bias?
  Nie, Shangrui and Fromm, Michael and Welch, Charles and Görge, Rebekka and Karimi, Akbar and Plepi, Joan and Mowmita, Nazia Afsan and Flores-Herr, Nicolas and Ali, Mehdi and Flek, Lucie
  C3NLP 2024
• Perspective Taking through Generating Responses to Conflict Situations
  Plepi, Joan and Welch, Charles and Flek, Lucie
  ACL Findings 2024
• Unveiling Information Through Narrative In Conversational Information Seeking
  Sadiri Javadi, Vahid and Trippas, Johanne R and Flek, Lucie
  CUI 2024
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• Pitfalls of Conversational LLMs on News Debiasing
  Schlicht, Ipek Baris and Altiok, Defne and Taouk, Maryanne and Flek, Lucie
  DELITE 2024
• A Perspectivist Corpus of Numbers in Social Judgements
  May, Marlon and Flek, Lucie and Welch, Charles
  NLPerspectives LREC-COLING 2024
• Corpus Considerations for Annotator Modeling and Scaling
  Olufunke O. Sarumi and Béla Neuendorf and Joan Plepi and Lucie Flek and Jörg Schlötterer and Charles Welch
  NAACL 2024
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• Can Stories Help LLMs Reason? Curating Information Space Through Narrative
  V Sadiri Javadi, JR Trippas, YK Lal, L Flek
  arXiv e-prints, arXiv: 2410.19221 (2024)
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• Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text Generation
  S Balloccu, Z Kasner, O Plátek, P Schmidtová, K Onderková, M Lango, ...
  Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text …
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• Language-specific Calibration for Pruning Multilingual Language Models
  S Kurz, Z Zhao, JJ Chen, L Flek
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.14398
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• Large Language Models are Human-like Annotators
  Marreddy, Mounika and Oota, Subba Reddy and Gupta, Manish and Flek, Lucie
  KR 2024
• Harnessing Personalization Methods to Identify and Predict Unreliable Information Spreader Behavior
  Ashraf, Shaina and Gruschka, Fabio and Flek, Lucie and Welch, Charles
  WOAH 2024
• EmPO: Emotion Grounding for Empathetic Response Generation through Preference Optimization
  O Sotolar, V Formanek, A Debnath, A Lahnala, C Welch, L FLek
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19071 (2024)
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• Archetypes and Entropy: Theory-Driven Extraction of Evidence for Suicide Risk
  Varadarajan, Vasudha and Lahnala, Allison and Ganesan, Adithya V. and Dey, Gourab and Mangalik, Siddharth and Bucur, Ana-Maria and Soni, Nikita and Rao, Rajath and Lanning, Kevin and Vallejo, Isabella and Flek, Lucie and Schwartz, H. Andrew and Welch, Charles and Boyd, Ryan L.
  CLPsych 2024
• Appraisal Framework for Clinical Empathy: A Novel Application to Breaking Bad News Conversations
  Lahnala, Allison and Neuendorf, Béla and Thomin, Alexander and Welch, Charles and Stibane, Tina and Flek, Lucie
  LREC 2024
• DeFaktS: A Fine-Grained Dataset for Analyzing Disinformation in German Media
  Ashraf, Shaina and Bezzaoui, Isabel and Andone, Ionut and Markowetz, Alexander and Fegert, Jonas and Flek, Lucie
  LREC 2024
• Reference-guided Style-Consistent Content Transfer
  Chen, Wei-Fan and Alshomary, Milad and Stahl, Maja and Al Khatib, Khalid and Stein, Benno and Wachsmuth, Henning
  LREC 2024
• Vanishing Boundaries: A Unifying Account of Multidimensional Emotion Dynamics and Alterations in Depression
  AM Bucur, TA Koosha, A Cosma, L Flek, SE Thanarajah, F Bernhard, ...
  OSF
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• Proceedings of the 1st Human-Centered Large Language Modeling Workshop
  N Soni, L Flek, A Sharma, D Yang, S Hooker, HA Schwartz
  Proceedings of the 1st Human-Centered Large Language Modeling Workshop
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• LeadEmpathy: An Expert Annotated German Dataset of Empathy in Written Leadership Communication
  Sedefoglu, Didem and Lahnala, Allison and Wagner, Jasmin and Flek, Lucie and Ohly, Sandra
  LREC 2024

2021 - 2023

• CAISA at SemEval-2023 Task 8: Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Mitigating Class Imbalance in Causal Claim Identification
  Karimi, Akbar and Flek, Lucie
  SemEval 2023
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• Vanishing Boundaries: A Unifying Account of Multidimensional Emotion Dynamics and Alterations in Depression
  Bucur, Ana-Maria and Koosha, Tahmineh A. and Cosma, Adrian and Flek, Lucie and Thanarajah, Sharmili Edwin and Bernhard, Felix and Rosso, Paolo and Jamalabadi, Hamidreza
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• Suicide Ideation Detection via Social and Temporal User Representations using Hyperbolic Learning
  Sawhney, Ramit and Joshi, Harshit and Shah, Rajiv Ratn and Flek, Lucie
  NAACL-HLT 2021
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• Towards User-Centric Text-to-Text Generation: A Survey
  Yang, Diyi and Flek, Lucie
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• Perceived and Intended Sarcasm Detection with Graph Attention Networks
  Plepi, Joan and Flek, Lucie
  Findings 2021
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• HypMix: Hyperbolic Interpolative Data Augmentation
  Sawhney, Ramit and Thakkar, Megh and Agarwal, Shivam and Jin, Di and Yang, Diyi and Flek, Lucie
  EMNLP 2021
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• The Impact of Differential Privacy on Group Disparity Mitigation
  Petren Bach Hansen, Victor and Tejaswi Neerkaje, Atula and Sawhney, Ramit and Flek, Lucie and Sogaard, Anders
  PrivateNLP 2022
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• Investigating User Radicalization: A Novel Dataset for Identifying Fine-Grained Temporal Shifts in Opinion
  Sakketou, Flora and Lahnala, Allison and Vogel, Liane and Flek, Lucie
• UserNLP’22: 2022 International Workshop on User-centered Natural Language Processing
  Huang, Xiaolei and Flek, Lucie and Dernoncourt, Franck and Welch, Charles and Amir, Silvio and Sawhney, Ramit and Yang, Diyi
  WWW '22: The ACM Web Conference 2022
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• Refining Diagnosis Paths for Medical Diagnosis based on an Augmented Knowledge Graph
  Heilig, Niclas and Kirchhoff, Jan and Stumpe, Florian and Plepi, Joan and Flek, Lucie and Paulheim, Heiko
• CAISA at WASSA 2022: Adapter-Tuning for Empathy Prediction
  Lahnala, Allison and Welch, Charles and Flek, Lucie
  WASSA 2022
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• DMix: Adaptive Distance-aware Interpolative Mixup
  Sawhney, Ramit and Thakkar, Megh and Pandit, Shrey and Soun, Ritesh and Jin, Di and Yang, Diyi and Flek, Lucie
  ACL 2022
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• FACTOID: A New Dataset for Identifying Misinformation Spreaders and Political Bias
  Sakketou, Flora and Plepi, Joan and Cervero, Riccardo and Geiss, Henri Jacques and Rosso, Paolo and Flek, Lucie
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• Mitigating Toxic Degeneration with Empathetic Data: Exploring the Relationship Between Toxicity and Empathy
  Lahnala, Allison and Welch, Charles and Neuendorf, Béla and Flek, Lucie
  NAACL-HLT 2022
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• OK Boomer: Probing the socio-demographic Divide in Echo Chambers
  Geiss, Henri-Jacques and Sakketou, Flora and Flek, Lucie
  SocialNLP 2022
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• Towards Suicide Ideation Detection Through Online Conversational Context
  Sawhney, Ramit and Agarwal, Shivam and Neerkaje, Atula Tejaswi and Aletras, Nikolaos and Nakov, Preslav and Flek, Lucie
  SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
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• Understanding Interpersonal Conflict Types and their Impact on Perception Classification
  Welch, Charles and Plepi, Joan and Neuendorf, Béla and Flek, Lucie
  NLP+CSS 2022
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• Investigating Paraphrasing-Based Data Augmentation for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems
  Vogel, Liane and Flek, Lucie
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• CAISA@SMM4H'22: Robust Cross-Lingual Detection of Disease Mentions on Social Media with Adversarial Methods
  Karimi, Akbar and Flek, Lucie
  SMM4H 2022
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• Temporal Graph Analysis of Misinformation Spreaders in Social Media
  Plepi, Joan and Sakketou, Flora and Geiss, Henri-Jacques and Flek, Lucie
  TextGraphs 2022
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• Unifying Data Perspectivism and Personalization: An Application to Social Norms
  Plepi, Joan and Neuendorf, Béla and Flek, Lucie and Welch, Charles
  EMNLP 2022
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• Nearest Neighbor Language Models for Stylistic Controllable Generation
  Trotta, Severino and Flek, Lucie and Welch, Charles
  GEM 2022
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• A Critical Reflection and Forward Perspective on Empathy and Natural Language Processing
  Lahnala, Allison and Welch, Charles and Jurgens, David and Flek, Lucie
  Findings 2022
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• Multilingual Detection of Check-Worthy Claims Using World Languages and Adapter Fusion
  Schlicht, Ipek Baris and Flek, Lucie and Rosso, Paolo
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• How Much User Context Do We Need? Privacy by Design in Mental Health NLP Applications
  Sawhney, Ramit and Neerkaje, Atula and Habernal, Ivan and Flek, Lucie
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• Domain Transfer for Empathy, Distress, and Personality Prediction
  Gruschka, Fabio and Lahnala, Allison and Welch, Charles and Flek, Lucie
  WASSA 2023
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• OpinionConv: Conversational Product Search with Grounded Opinions
  Sadiri Javadi, Vahid and Potthast, Martin and Flek, Lucie
  SIGDIAL 2023
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• Challenges of GPT-3-Based Conversational Agents for Healthcare
  Lechner, Fabian and Lahnala, Allison and Welch, Charles and Flek, Lucie
  RANLP 2023
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• Personalized Intended and Perceived Sarcasm Detection on Twitter
  Plepi, Joan and Buski, Magdalena and Flek, Lucie
  cpss 2023
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• Style Locality for Controllable Generation with kNN Language Models
  Nawezi, Gilles and Flek, Lucie and Welch, Charles
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• Leveraging Similar Users for Personalized Language Modeling with Limited Data
  Welch, Charles and Gu, Chenxi and Kummerfeld, Jonathan K. and Perez-Rosas, Veronica and Mihalcea, Rada
  ACL 2022
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• Knowledge Enhanced Reflection Generation for Counseling Dialogues
  Shen, Siqi and Perez-Rosas, Veronica and Welch, Charles and Poria, Soujanya and Mihalcea, Rada
  ACL 2022
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