2025

• 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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