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Bolei Ma

10 accepted papers

2026

Do Large Language Models Think like the Brain? Sentence-Level Evidences from Layer-Wise Embeddings and fMRI

AAAI 2026technical

Understanding whether large language models (LLMs) and the human brain converge on similar computational principles remains a fundamental and important question in cognitive neuroscience and AI. Do the brain-like patterns observed in LLMs emerge simply from scaling, or do they reflect deeper alignme

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2026

SURE: SYNERGISTIC UNCERTAINTY-AWARE REASONING FOR MULTIMODAL EMOTION RECOGNITION IN CONVERSATIONS

ICASSP 2026oral

Multimodal emotion recognition in conversations (MERC) requires integrating multimodal signals while being robust to noise and modeling contextual reasoning. Existing approaches often emphasize fusion but overlook uncertainty in noisy features and fine-grained reasoning. We propose SURE (Synergistic…

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2025

Algorithmic Fidelity of Large Language Models in Generating Synthetic German Public Opinions: A Case Study

ACL 2025long

In recent research, large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly used to investigate public opinions. This study investigates the algorithmic fidelity of LLMs, i.e., the ability to replicate the socio-cultural context and nuanced opinions of human participants. Using open-ended survey data fr…

2025

M-ABSA: A Multilingual Dataset for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

EMNLP 2025

Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) is a crucial task in information extraction and sentiment analysis, aiming to identify aspects with associated sentiment elements in text. However, existing ABSA datasets are predominantly English-centric, limiting the scope for multilingual evaluation and rese

2025

Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations: A Survey of Methods, Trends, Challenges and Prospects

EMNLP 2025

While text-based emotion recognition methods have achieved notable success, real-world dialogue systems often demand a more nuanced emotional understanding than any single modality can offer. Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations (MERC) has thus emerged as a crucial direction for enhancing

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2025

Pragmatics in the Era of Large Language Models: A Survey on Datasets, Evaluation, Opportunities and Challenges

ACL 2025long

Understanding pragmatics—the use of language in context—is crucial for developing NLP systems capable of interpreting nuanced language use. Despite recent advances in language technologies, including large language models, evaluating their ability to handle pragmatic phenomena such as implicatures a…

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2024

The Potential and Challenges of Evaluating Attitudes, Opinions, and Values in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024finding

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have sparked wide interest in validating and comprehending the human-like cognitive-behavioral traits LLMs may capture and convey. These cognitive-behavioral traits include typically Attitudes, Opinions, Values (AOVs). However, measuring AOVs embedded…

2024

“My Answer is C”: First-Token Probabilities Do Not Match Text Answers in Instruction-Tuned Language Models

ACL 2024findings

The open-ended nature of language generation makes the evaluation of autoregressive large language models (LLMs) challenging. One common evaluation approach uses multiple-choice questions to limit the response space. The model is then evaluated by ranking the candidate answers by the log probability…

2023

Annotation Sensitivity: Training Data Collection Methods Affect Model Performance

EMNLP 2023long findings

When training data are collected from human annotators, the design of the annotation instrument, the instructions given to annotators, the characteristics of the annotators, and their interactions can impact training data. This study demonstrates that design choices made when creating an annotation…

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