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Ryan L. Boyd

4 accepted papers

2025

Capturing Author Self Beliefs in Social Media Language

ACL 2025long

Measuring the prevalence and dimensions of self beliefs is essential for understanding human self-perception and various psychological outcomes. In this paper, we develop a novel task for classifying language that contains explicit or implicit mentions of the author’s self beliefs. We contribute a s…

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2025

Capturing Human Cognitive Styles with Language: Towards an Experimental Evaluation Paradigm

NAACL 2025short

While NLP models often seek to capture cognitive states via language, the validity of predicted states is determined by comparing them to annotations created without access the cognitive states of the authors. In behavioral sciences, cognitive states are instead measured via experiments. Here, we in…

2025

Systematic Evaluation of Auto-Encoding and Large Language Model Representations for Capturing Author States and Traits

ACL 2025finding

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in human-centered applications, yet their ability to model diverse psychological constructs is not well understood. In this study, we systematically evaluate a range of Transformer-LMs to predict psychological variables across five major dimensions:…

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2025

WhiSPA: Semantically and Psychologically Aligned Whisper with Self-Supervised Contrastive and Student-Teacher Learning

ACL 2025long

Current speech encoding pipelines often rely on an additional text-based LM to get robust representations of human communication, even though SotA speech-to-text models often have a LM within. This work proposes an approach to improve the LM within an audio model such that the subsequent text-LM is…