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Nicholas Deas

7 accepted papers

2025

Artificial Impressions: Evaluating Large Language Model Behavior Through the Lens of Trait Impressions

EMNLP 2025

We introduce and study artificial impressions–patterns in LLMs’ internal representations of prompts that resemble human impressions and stereotypes based on language. We fit linear probes on generated prompts to predict impressions according to the two-dimensional Stereotype Content Model (SCM). Usi

2025

Data Caricatures: On the Representation of African American Language in Pretraining Corpora

ACL 2025long

With a combination of quantitative experiments, human judgments, and qualitative analyses, we evaluate the quantity and quality of African American Language (AAL) representation in 12 predominantly English, open-source pretraining corpora. We specifically focus on the sources, variation, and natural…

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2025

Rejected Dialects: Biases Against African American Language in Reward Models

NAACL 2025findings

Preference alignment via reward models helps build safe, helpful, and reliable large language models (LLMs). However, subjectivity in preference judgments and the lack of representative sampling in preference data collection can introduce new biases, hindering reward models’ fairness and equity. In…

2025

Summarization of Opinionated Political Documents with Varied Perspectives

COLING 2025main

Global partisan hostility and polarization has increased, and this polarization is heightened around presidential elections. Models capable of generating accurate summaries of diverse perspectives can help reduce such polarization by exposing users to alternative perspectives. In this work, we intro…

2024

MASIVE: Open-Ended Affective State Identification in English and Spanish

EMNLP 2024main

In the field of emotion analysis, much NLP research focuses on identifying a limited number of discrete emotion categories, often applied across languages. These basic sets, however, are rarely designed with textual data in mind, and culture, language, and dialect can influence how particular emotio…

2023

Evaluation of African American Language Bias in Natural Language Generation

EMNLP 2023long main

While biases disadvantaging African American Language (AAL) have been uncovered in models for tasks such as speech recognition and toxicity detection, there has been little investigation of these biases for language generation models like ChatGPT. We evaluate how well LLMs understand AAL in comparis…

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