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Garrick Sherman

3 accepted papers

2025

Language-based Valence and Arousal Expressions between the United States and China: a Cross-Cultural Examination

NAACL 2025findings

While affective expressions on social media have been extensively studied, most research has focused on the Western context. This paper explores cultural differences in affective expressions by comparing valence and arousal on Twitter/X (geolocated to the US) and Sina Weibo (in Mainland China). Usin…

2024

Modeling Human Subjectivity in LLMs Using Explicit and Implicit Human Factors in Personas

EMNLP 2024finding

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in human-centered social scientific tasks, such as data annotation, synthetic data creation, and engaging in dialog. However, these tasks are highly subjective and dependent on human factors, such as one’s environment, attitudes, beliefs, and…

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2022

Measuring the Language of Self-Disclosure across Corpora

ACL 2022findings

Being able to reliably estimate self-disclosure – a key component of friendship and intimacy – from language is important for many psychology studies. We build single-task models on five self-disclosure corpora, but find that these models generalize poorly; the within-domain accuracy of predicted me…