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Brandon M. Stewart

4 accepted papers

2024

AutoPersuade: A Framework for Evaluating and Explaining Persuasive Arguments

EMNLP 2024main

We introduce a three-part framework for constructing persuasive messages, AutoPersuade. First, we curate a large collection of arguments and gather human evaluations of their persuasiveness. Next, we introduce a novel topic model to identify the features of these arguments that influence persuasion.…

2024

More Victories, Less Cooperation: Assessing Cicero’s Diplomacy Play

ACL 2024long

The boardgame Diplomacy is a challenging setting for communicative and cooperative artificial intelligence. The most prominent communicative Diplomacy AI, Cicero, has excellent strategic abilities, exceeding human players. However, the best Diplomacy players master communication, not just tactics, w…

2023

GPT Deciphering Fedspeak: Quantifying Dissent Among Hawks and Doves

EMNLP 2023short findings

Markets and policymakers around the world hang on the consequential monetary policy decisions made by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). Publicly available textual documentation of their meetings provides insight into members’ attitudes about the economy. We use GPT-4 to quantify dissent amon…

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2023

Using Imperfect Surrogates for Downstream Inference: Design-based Supervised Learning for Social Science Applications of Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2023poster

In computational social science (CSS), researchers analyze documents to explain social and political phenomena. In most scenarios, CSS researchers first obtain labels for documents and then explain labels using interpretable regression analyses in the second step. One increasingly common way to anno…

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