Jocelyn J Shen — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Words Like Knives: Backstory-Personalized Modeling and Detection of Violent Communication

Jocelyn J Shen, Akhila Yerukola, Xuhui Zhou, Cynthia Breazeal, Maarten Sap, Hae Won Park

EMNLP 2025

Conversational breakdowns in close relationships are deeply shaped by personal histories and emotional context, yet most NLP research treats conflict detection as a general task, overlooking the relational dynamics that influence how messages are perceived. In this work, we leverage nonviolent commu

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2023

Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives

Jocelyn J Shen, Maarten Sap, Pedro Colon-Hernandez, Hae Won Park, Cynthia Breazeal

EMNLP 2023long main

The most meaningful connections between people are often fostered through expression of shared vulnerability and emotional experiences in personal narratives. We introduce a new task of identifying similarity in personal stories based on empathic resonance, i.e., the extent to which two people empat…

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