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Hongli Zhan

4 accepted papers

2025

SPRI: Aligning Large Language Models with Context-Situated Principles

ICML 2025poster

Aligning Large Language Models to integrate and reflect human values, especially for tasks that demand intricate human oversight, is arduous since it is resource-intensive and time-consuming to depend on human expertise for context-specific guidance. Prior work has utilized predefined sets of rules…

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2023

Evaluating Subjective Cognitive Appraisals of Emotions from Large Language Models

EMNLP 2023long findings

The emotions we experience involve complex processes; besides physiological aspects, research in psychology has studied cognitive appraisals where people assess their situations subjectively, according to their own values (Scherer, 2005). Thus, the same situation can often result in different emotio…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

Unsupervised Extractive Summarization of Emotion Triggers

ACL 2023long

Understanding what leads to emotions during large-scale crises is important as it can provide groundings for expressed emotions and subsequently improve the understanding of ongoing disasters. Recent approaches trained supervised models to both detect emotions and explain emotion triggers (events an…

2022

Why Do You Feel This Way? Summarizing Triggers of Emotions in Social Media Posts

EMNLP 2022main

Crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic continuously threaten our world and emotionally affect billions of people worldwide in distinct ways. Understanding the triggers leading to people’s emotions is of crucial importance. Social media posts can be a good source of such analysis, yet these texts tend…