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Xiaojuan Ma

4 accepted papers

2025

Rethinking Personality Assessment from Human-Agent Dialogues: Fewer Rounds May Be Better Than More

EMNLP 2025

Personality assessment is essential for developing user-centered systems, playing a critical role across domains including hiring, education, and personalized system design. With the integration of conversational AI systems into daily life, automatically assessing human personality through natural l

2022

Educational Question Generation of Children Storybooks via Question Type Distribution Learning and Event-centric Summarization

ACL 2022long

Generating educational questions of fairytales or storybooks is vital for improving children’s literacy ability. However, it is challenging to generate questions that capture the interesting aspects of a fairytale story with educational meaningfulness. In this paper, we propose a novel question gene…

2022

Fantastic Questions and Where to Find Them: FairytaleQA – An Authentic Dataset for Narrative Comprehension

ACL 2022long

Question answering (QA) is a fundamental means to facilitate assessment and training of narrative comprehension skills for both machines and young children, yet there is scarcity of high-quality QA datasets carefully designed to serve this purpose. In particular, existing datasets rarely distinguish…

2018

Coloring with Words: Guiding Image Colorization Through Text-based Palette Generation

ECCV 2018poster

This paper proposes a novel approach to generate multiple color palettes that reflect the semantics of input text and then colorize a given grayscale image according to the generated color palette. In contrast to existing approaches, our model can understand rich text, whether it is a single word, a…