Examining the Utility of Self-disclosure Types for Modeling Annotators of Social Norms.

Allison Lahnala Allison Claire Lahnala https://caisa-lab.github.io/members/allie_lahnala.html https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8626-1013 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130814617 Kieran Henderson Kian Omoomi Vasudha Varadarajan Allison Lahnala Charles Welch Examining the Utility of Self-disclosure Types for Modeling Annotators of Social Norms. EACL (Findings) 2026 132-150 conf/eacl/2026f https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.findings-eacl.8 https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.8/ db/conf/eacl/eacl2026f.html#HendersonOVLW26 streams/conf/eacl Tingting Liu Salvatore Giorgi Ankit Aich Allison Lahnala Brenda Curtis Lyle H. Ungar João Sedoc The Illusion of Empathy: How AI Chatbots Shape Conversation Perception. 14327-14335 2025 AAAI https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v39i13.33569 conf/aaai/2025 db/conf/aaai/aaai2025.html#LiuGALCUS25 Allison Lahnala Charles Welch David Jurgens Lucie Flek The Practical Impacts of Theoretical Constructs on Empathy Modeling. 15559-15586 2025 EMNLP https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.785 conf/emnlp/2025 db/conf/emnlp/emnlp2025.html#LahnalaWJF25 streams/conf/emnlp Allison Lahnala Vasudha Varadarajan Lucie Flek H. Andrew Schwartz Ryan L. Boyd Unifying the Extremes: Developing a Unified Model for Detecting and Predicting Extremist Traits and Radicalization. 1051-1067 2025 ICWSM https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v19i1.35860 conf/icwsm/2025 db/conf/icwsm/icwsm2025.html#LahnalaVFSB25

Allison Lahnala Vasudha Varadarajan Lucie Flek H. Andrew Schwartz Ryan L. Boyd Unifying the Extremes: Developing a Unified Model for Detecting and Predicting Extremist Traits and Radicalization. 2025 January abs/2501.04820 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.04820 db/journals/corr/corr2501.html#abs-2501-04820 streams/journals/corr

Allison Lahnala Charles Welch David Jurgens Lucie Flek The Muddy Waters of Modeling Empathy in Language: The Practical Impacts of Theoretical Constructs. 2025 January abs/2501.14981 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.14981 db/journals/corr/corr2501.html#abs-2501-14981 streams/journals/corr

Charles Welch Allison Lahnala Vasudha Varadarajan Lucie Flek Rada Mihalcea J. Lomax Boyd João Sedoc ISCA: A Framework for Interview-Style Conversational Agents. 2025 August abs/2508.14344 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.14344 db/journals/corr/corr2508.html#abs-2508-14344 streams/journals/corr

Kieran Henderson Kian Omoomi Vasudha Varadarajan Allison Lahnala Charles Welch Examining the Utility of Self-disclosure Types for Modeling Annotators of Social Norms. 2025 December abs/2512.16034 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.16034 db/journals/corr/corr2512.html#abs-2512-16034 streams/journals/corr

Alok Debnath Allison Lahnala Hüseyin Ugur Genç Ewan Soubutts Michal Lahav Tiffanie Horne Wo Meijer Yun Suen Pai Yen-Chia Hsu Giulia Barbareschi Himanshu Verma 0001 Andrea Mauri 0001 EmpathiCH: Scrutinizing Empathy-Centric Design Beyond the Individual. 467:1-467:7 2024 CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3636297 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130814640 conf/chi/2024a db/conf/chi/chi2024a.html#DebnathLGSLHMPH24 Allison Claire Lahnala Béla Neuendorf Alexander Thomin Charles Welch Tina Stibane Lucie Flek Appraisal Framework for Clinical Empathy: A Novel Application to Breaking Bad News Conversations. 1393-1407 2024 LREC/COLING https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.124 conf/coling/2024 db/conf/coling/coling2024.html#LahnalaNTWSF24 Didem Sedefoglu Allison Claire Lahnala Jasmin Wagner Lucie Flek Sandra Ohly LeadEmpathy: An Expert Annotated German Dataset of Empathy in Written Leadership Communication. 10237-10248 2024 LREC/COLING https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.894 conf/coling/2024 db/conf/coling/coling2024.html#SedefogluLWFO24

Tingting Liu Salvatore Giorgi Ankit Aich Allison Lahnala Brenda Curtis Lyle H. Ungar João Sedoc The Illusion of Empathy: How AI Chatbots Shape Conversation Perception. 2024 abs/2411.12877 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.12877 db/journals/corr/corr2411.html#abs-2411-12877 streams/journals/corr

Fabian Lechner Allison Lahnala Charles Welch Lucie Flek Challenges of GPT-3-Based Conversational Agents for Healthcare. 619-630 2023 RANLP https://aclanthology.org/2023.ranlp-1.67 conf/ranlp/2023 db/conf/ranlp/ranlp2023.html#LechnerLWF23 Fabio Gruschka Allison Lahnala Charles Welch Lucie Flek Domain Transfer for Empathy, Distress, and Personality Prediction. 553-557 2023 WASSA@ACL https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.wassa-1.50 https://aclanthology.org/2023.wassa-1.50 conf/wassa/2023 db/conf/wassa/wassa2023.html#GruschkaLWF23

Fabian Lechner Allison Lahnala Charles Welch Lucie Flek Challenges of GPT-3-based Conversational Agents for Healthcare. 2023 abs/2308.14641 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.14641 db/journals/corr/corr2308.html#abs-2308-14641

Allison Lahnala Charles Welch David Jurgens Lucie Flek A Critical Reflection and Forward Perspective on Empathy and Natural Language Processing. 2139-2158 2022 EMNLP (Findings) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.157 https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.157 conf/emnlp/2022f db/conf/emnlp/emnlp2022f.html#LahnalaWJF22 Flora Sakketou Allison Lahnala Liane Vogel Lucie Flek Investigating User Radicalization: A Novel Dataset for Identifying Fine-Grained Temporal Shifts in Opinion. 3798-3808 2022 LREC https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.405 conf/lrec/2022 db/conf/lrec/lrec2022.html#SakketouLVF22 Allison Lahnala Charles Welch Béla Neuendorf Lucie Flek Mitigating Toxic Degeneration with Empathetic Data: Exploring the Relationship Between Toxicity and Empathy. 4926-4938 2022 NAACL-HLT https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.363 https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.363 conf/naacl/2022 db/conf/naacl/naacl2022.html#LahnalaWNF22 Allison Lahnala Charles Welch Lucie Flek CAISA at WASSA 2022: Adapter-Tuning for Empathy Prediction. 280-285 2022 WASSA@ACL https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.wassa-1.31 https://aclanthology.org/2022.wassa-1.31 conf/wassa/2022 db/conf/wassa/wassa2022.html#LahnalaWF22

Flora Sakketou Allison Lahnala Liane Vogel Lucie Flek Investigating User Radicalization: A Novel Dataset for Identifying Fine-Grained Temporal Shifts in Opinion. 2022 abs/2204.10190 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2204.10190 db/journals/corr/corr2204.html#abs-2204-10190

Allison Lahnala Charles Welch Béla Neuendorf Lucie Flek Mitigating Toxic Degeneration with Empathetic Data: Exploring the Relationship Between Toxicity and Empathy. 2022 abs/2205.07233 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.07233 db/journals/corr/corr2205.html#abs-2205-07233

Allison Lahnala Charles Welch David Jurgens Lucie Flek A Critical Reflection and Forward Perspective on Empathy and Natural Language Processing. 2022 abs/2210.16604 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2210.16604 db/journals/corr/corr2210.html#abs-2210-16604

Allison Lahnala Yuntian Zhao Charles Welch Jonathan K. Kummerfeld Lawrence C. An Kenneth Resnicow Rada Mihalcea Verónica Pérez-Rosas Exploring Self-Identified Counseling Expertise in Online Support Forums. 4467-4480 2021 ACL/IJCNLP (Findings) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.findings-acl.392 https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-acl.392 conf/acl/2021f db/conf/acl/acl2021f.html#LahnalaZWKARMP21 Allison Lahnala Gauri Kambhatla Jiajun Peng Matthew Whitehead Gillian Minnehan Eric Guldan Jonathan K. Kummerfeld Anil Çamci Rada Mihalcea Chord Embeddings: Analyzing What They Capture and Their Role for Next Chord Prediction and Artist Attribute Prediction. 171-186 2021 EvoMUSART https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72914-1_12 conf/evoW/2021musart db/conf/evoW/evomusart2021.html#LahnalaKPWMGKCM21

Allison Lahnala Gauri Kambhatla Jiajun Peng Matthew Whitehead Gillian Minnehan Eric Guldan Jonathan K. Kummerfeld Anil Çamci Rada Mihalcea Chord Embeddings: Analyzing What They Capture and Their Role for Next Chord Prediction and Artist Attribute Prediction. 2021 abs/2102.02917 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02917 db/journals/corr/corr2102.html#abs-2102-02917

Allison Lahnala Yuntian Zhao Charles Welch Jonathan K. Kummerfeld Lawrence C. An Kenneth Resnicow Rada Mihalcea Verónica Pérez-Rosas Exploring Self-Identified Counseling Expertise in Online Support Forums. 2021 abs/2106.12976 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.12976 db/journals/corr/corr2106.html#abs-2106-12976

Kim Breitwieser Allison Lahnala Charles Welch Lucie Flek Martin Potthast Modeling Proficiency with Implicit User Representations. 2021 abs/2110.08011 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08011 db/journals/corr/corr2110.html#abs-2110-08011

Charles Welch Allison Lahnala Verónica Pérez-Rosas Siqi Shen Sarah Seraj Larry An Kenneth Resnicow James W. Pennebaker Rada Mihalcea Expressive Interviewing: A Conversational System for Coping with COVID-19. 2020 NLP4COVID@EMNLP https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.nlpcovid19-2.6 conf/emnlp/2020covid db/conf/emnlp/covid2020.html#WelchLPSSARPM20

Charles Welch Allison Lahnala Verónica Pérez-Rosas Siqi Shen Sarah Seraj Larry An Kenneth Resnicow James W. Pennebaker Rada Mihalcea Expressive Interviewing: A Conversational System for Coping with COVID-19. 2020 abs/2007.03819 CoRR https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03819 db/journals/corr/corr2007.html#abs-2007-03819

Ankit Aich Lawrence C. AnLarry An Giulia Barbareschi J. Lomax Boyd Ryan L. Boyd Kim Breitwieser Anil Çamci Brenda Curtis Alok Debnath Lucie Flek Hüseyin Ugur Genç Salvatore Giorgi Fabio Gruschka Eric Guldan Kieran Henderson Tiffanie Horne Yen-Chia Hsu David Jurgens Gauri Kambhatla Jonathan K. Kummerfeld Michal Lahav Fabian Lechner Tingting Liu Andrea Mauri 0001 Wo Meijer Rada Mihalcea Gillian Minnehan Béla Neuendorf Sandra Ohly Kian Omoomi Yun Suen Pai Jiajun Peng James W. Pennebaker Verónica Pérez-Rosas Martin Potthast Kenneth Resnicow Flora Sakketou H. Andrew Schwartz Didem Sedefoglu João Sedoc Sarah Seraj Siqi Shen Ewan Soubutts Tina Stibane Alexander Thomin Lyle H. Ungar Vasudha Varadarajan Himanshu Verma 0001 Liane Vogel Jasmin Wagner Charles Welch Matthew Whitehead Yuntian Zhao