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Harksoo Kim

13 accepted papers

2025

Can Large Language Models Differentiate Harmful from Argumentative Essays? Steps Toward Ethical Essay Scoring

COLING 2025main

This study addresses critical gaps in Automatic Essay Scoring (AES) systems and Large Language Models (LLMs) with regard to their ability to effectively identify and score harmful essays. Despite advancements in AES technology, current models often overlook ethically and morally problematic elements…

2025

Do Large Language Models Have “Emotion Neurons”? Investigating the Existence and Role

ACL 2025finding

This study comprehensively explores whether there actually exist “emotion neurons” within large language models (LLMs) that selectively process and express certain emotions, and what functional role they play. Drawing on the representative emotion theory of the six basic emotions, we focus on six co…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Does the Emotional Understanding of LVLMs Vary Under High-Stress Environments and Across Different Demographic Attributes?

ACL 2025long

According to psychological and neuroscientific research, a high-stress environment can restrict attentional resources and intensify negative affect, thereby impairing the ability to understand emotions. Furthermore, demographic attributes such as race, gender, and age group have been repeatedly repo…

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2025

Exploring the Impact of Instruction-Tuning on LLM’s Susceptibility to Misinformation

ACL 2025long

Instruction-tuning enhances the ability of large language models (LLMs) to follow user instructions more accurately, improving usability while reducing harmful outputs. However, this process may increase the model’s dependence on user input, potentially leading to the unfiltered acceptance of misinf…

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2025

Generation-Based and Emotion-Reflected Memory Update: Creating the KEEM Dataset for Better Long-Term Conversation

COLING 2025main

In this work, we introduce the Keep Emotional and Essential Memory (KEEM) dataset, a novel generation-based dataset designed to enhance memory updates in long-term conversational systems. Unlike existing approaches that rely on simple accumulation or operation-based methods, which often result in in…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

STEAM: A Semantic-Level Knowledge Editing Framework for Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models store extensive factual knowledge acquired during large-scale pre-training. However, this knowledge is inherently static, reflecting only the state of the world at the time of training. Knowledge editing has emerged as a promising solution for updating outdated or incorrect fac

2025

Small Changes, Big Impact: How Manipulating a Few Neurons Can Drastically Alter LLM Aggression

ACL 2025long

Recent remarkable advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to innovations in various domains such as education, healthcare, and finance, while also raising serious concerns that they can be easily misused for malicious purposes. Most previous research has focused primarily on observing how…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Analyzing Key Factors Influencing Emotion Prediction Performance of VLLMs in Conversational Contexts

EMNLP 2024main

Emotional intelligence (EI) in artificial intelligence (AI), which refers to the ability of an AI to understand and respond appropriately to human emotions, has emerged as a crucial research topic. Recent studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) and vision large language models (VLLMs) p…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Bridging the Code Gap: A Joint Learning Framework across Medical Coding Systems

COLING 2024main

Automated Medical Coding (AMC) is the task of automatically converting free-text medical documents into predefined codes according to a specific medical coding system. Although deep learning has significantly advanced AMC, the class imbalance problem remains a significant challenge. To address this…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Exploring Nested Named Entity Recognition with Large Language Models: Methods, Challenges, and Insights

EMNLP 2024main

Nested Named Entity Recognition (NER) poses a significant challenge in Natural Language Processing (NLP), demanding sophisticated techniques to identify entities within entities. This research investigates the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to nested NER, exploring methodologies from pr…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2023

A Framework for Vision-Language Warm-up Tasks in Multimodal Dialogue Models

EMNLP 2023long main

Most research on multimodal open-domain dialogue agents has focused on pretraining and multi-task learning using additional rich datasets beyond a given target dataset. However, methods for exploiting these additional datasets can be quite limited in real-world settings, creating a need for more eff…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2021

Deep Context- and Relation-Aware Learning for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis

ACL 2021short

Existing works for aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) have adopted a unified approach, which allows the interactive relations among subtasks. However, we observe that these methods tend to predict polarities based on the literal meaning of aspect and opinion terms and mainly consider relations i…