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Rada Mihalcea

207 papers · 2000–2026 · 15 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌍 Conference Polyglot (15) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (25) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (8) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (10) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (11) 🐺 Lone Wolf (6) 🌟 Keyword Trendsetter Combo (6) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (48) πŸ† Grand Slam πŸ‘‘ Triple Crown πŸ† Keyword Champion 🀝 Dynamic Duo (30) πŸ‘₯ Mega-Team (76) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (22) 🧬 Topic Evolution πŸš€ Conference Pioneer ⚑ Prolific Year (24) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (518) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (22) πŸ’Ž Century Club (201) ❓ The Questioner (13)

Conferences

ACL (51) EMNLP (48) NAACL (25) COLING (22) IJCNLP (15) SEMEVAL (12) EACL (10) CONLL (7) AAAI (4) AACL (4) NIPS (3) ICLR (2) MLHC (2) CVPR (1) ICML (1)

Top co-authors

Veronica Perez-Rosas (31) Zhijing Jin (22) Soujanya Poria (18) Oana Ignat (17) Carmen Banea (15) Janyce Wiebe (14) Naihao Deng (13) Jonathan K. Kummerfeld (13) Bernhard SchΓΆlkopf (13) Mrinmaya Sachan (12)

Research topics

Linguistics (1) Digital Humanities (1)

Keywords

large language model (24) text classification (20) multimodal learning (15) video understanding (9) gender bia (8) sentiment analysis (7) language model (7) dialogue system (7) word embedding (6) representation learning (6) multi-agent system (5) causal inference (5) motivational interviewing (5) commonsense knowledge (5) benchmark evaluation (5) vision-language model (5) natural language processing (5) conversation analysis (5) sentiment classification (4) emotion recognition (4)

Papers

Culture Affordance Atlas: Reconciling Object Diversity Through Functional Mapping AAAI 2026
Persuasion at Play: Understanding Misinformation Dynamics in Demographic-Aware Human-LLM Interactions EACL 2026
Democratic or Authoritarian? Probing a New Dimension of Political Biases in Large Language Models EACL 2026
When Do Language Models Endorse Limitations on Human Rights Principles? EACL 2026
NLP for Social Good: A Survey and Outlook of Challenges, Opportunities and Responsible Deployment EACL 2026
Why AI Is WEIRD and Shouldn't Be This Way: Towards AI for Everyone, with Everyone, by Everyone AAAI 2025
Towards Region-aware Bias Evaluation Metrics NAACL 2025
InspAIred: Cross-cultural Inspiration Detection and Analysis in Real and LLM-generated Social Media Data NAACL 2025
Causally Testing Gender Bias in LLMs: A Case Study on Occupational Bias NAACL 2025
MAiDE-up: Multilingual Deception Detection of AI-generated Hotel Reviews NAACL 2025
Examining Spanish Counseling with MIDAS: a Motivational Interviewing Dataset in Spanish NAACL 2025
The Power of Many: Multi-Agent Multimodal Models for Cultural Image Captioning NAACL 2025
Uplifting Lower-Income Data: Strategies for Socioeconomic Perspective Shifts in Large Multi-modal Models NAACL 2025
Acoustic Individual Identification of White-Faced Capuchin Monkeys Using Joint Multi-Species Embeddings ACL 2025
Mind the (Belief) Gap: Group Identity in the World of LLMs ACL 2025
Rethinking Table Instruction Tuning ACL 2025
CliniDial: A Naturally Occurring Multimodal Dialogue Dataset for Team Reflection in Action During Clinical Operation ACL 2025
Chumor 2.0: Towards Better Benchmarking Chinese Humor Understanding from (Ruo Zhi Ba) ACL 2025
Quriosity: Analyzing Human Questioning Behavior and Causal Inquiry through Curiosity-Driven Queries IJCNLP 2025
Language Model Alignment in Multilingual Trolley Problems ICLR 2025
MoMentS: A Comprehensive Multimodal Benchmark for Theory of Mind EMNLP 2025
Benchmarking and Improving LLM Robustness for Personalized Generation EMNLP 2025
Are Language Models Consequentialist or Deontological Moral Reasoners? EMNLP 2025
Revisiting LLM Value Probing Strategies: Are They Robust and Expressive? EMNLP 2025
R3: β€œThis is My SQL, Are You With Me?” A Consensus-Based Multi-Agent System for Text-to-SQL Tasks ACL 2025
Voices of Her: Analyzing Gender Differences in the AI Publication World ACL 2025
Evaluating LLMs’ Mathematical and Coding Competency through Ontology-guided Interventions ACL 2025
Revealing Hidden Mechanisms of Cross-Country Content Moderation with Natural Language Processing ACL 2025
Quriosity: Analyzing Human Questioning Behavior and Causal Inquiry through Curiosity-Driven Queries AACL 2025
Eeyore: Realistic Depression Simulation via Expert-in-the-Loop Supervised and Preference Optimization ACL 2025
Unsupervised Discrete Representations of American Sign Language EMNLP 2024
The Generation Gap: Exploring Age Bias in the Value Systems of Large Language Models EMNLP 2024
A Comparative Multidimensional Analysis of Empathetic Systems EACL 2024
Towards Dog Bark Decoding: Leveraging Human Speech Processing for Automated Bark Classification COLING 2024
Towards Algorithmic Fidelity: Mental Health Representation across Demographics in Synthetic vs. Human-generated Data COLING 2024
Has It All Been Solved? Open NLP Research Questions Not Solved by Large Language Models COLING 2024
Dynamic Reward Adjustment in Multi-Reward Reinforcement Learning for Counselor Reflection Generation COLING 2024
Annotations on a Budget: Leveraging Geo-Data Similarity to Balance Model Performance and Annotation Cost COLING 2024
Analyzing Occupational Distribution Representation in Japanese Language Models COLING 2024
Understanding the Capabilities and Limitations of Large Language Models for Cultural Commonsense NAACL 2024
CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark NIPS 2024
A Mechanistic Understanding of Alignment Algorithms: A Case Study on DPO and Toxicity ICML 2024
EmoBench: Evaluating the Emotional Intelligence of Large Language Models ACL 2024
Can Large Language Models Infer Causation from Correlation? ICLR 2024
Tables as Texts or Images: Evaluating the Table Reasoning Ability of LLMs and MLLMs ACL 2024
Whose wife is it anyway? Assessing bias against same-gender relationships in machine translation ACL 2024
Cooperate or Collapse: Emergence of Sustainable Cooperation in a Society of LLM Agents NIPS 2024
Learning Human Action Representations from Temporal Context in Lifestyle Vlogs ACL 2024
Implicit Personalization in Language Models: A Systematic Study EMNLP 2024
Do LLMs Think Fast and Slow? A Causal Study on Sentiment Analysis EMNLP 2024
Towards Implicit Bias Detection and Mitigation in Multi-Agent LLM Interactions EMNLP 2024
Bridging the Digital Divide: Performance Variation across Socio-Economic Factors in Vision-Language Models EMNLP 2023
Query Rewriting for Effective Misinformation Discovery AACL 2023
Navigating Data Scarcity: Pretraining for Medical Utterance Classification ACL 2023
Scalable Performance Analysis for Vision-Language Models ACL 2023
Word Category Arcs in Literature Across Languages and Genres ACL 2023
Empathy Identification Systems are not Accurately Accounting for Context EACL 2023
Cross-Cultural Analysis of Human Values, Morals, and Biases in Folk Tales EMNLP 2023
Task-Adaptive Tokenization: Enhancing Long-Form Text Generation Efficacy in Mental Health and Beyond EMNLP 2023
Beyond Good Intentions: Reporting the Research Landscape of NLP for Social Good EMNLP 2023
VERVE: Template-based ReflectiVE Rewriting for MotiVational IntErviewing EMNLP 2023
Hi-ToM: A Benchmark for Evaluating Higher-Order Theory of Mind Reasoning in Large Language Models EMNLP 2023
Language Guided Visual Question Answering: Elevate Your Multimodal Language Model Using Knowledge-Enriched Prompts EMNLP 2023
You Are What You Annotate: Towards Better Models through Annotator Representations EMNLP 2023
Query Rewriting for Effective Misinformation Discovery IJCNLP 2023
Uncovering the Varied Impact of Behavioral Change Messages on Population Groups MLHC 2023
Modality-specific Learning Rates for Effective Multimodal Additive Late-fusion ACL 2022
CICERO: A Dataset for Contextualized Commonsense Inference in Dialogues ACL 2022
FIBER: Fill-in-the-Blanks as a Challenging Video Understanding Evaluation Framework ACL 2022
Knowledge Enhanced Reflection Generation for Counseling Dialogues ACL 2022
Logical Fallacy Detection EMNLP 2022
Two is Better than Many? Binary Classification as an Effective Approach to Multi-Choice Question Answering EMNLP 2022
PAIR: Prompt-Aware margIn Ranking for Counselor Reflection Scoring in Motivational Interviewing EMNLP 2022
Towards Understanding the Relation between Gestures and Language COLING 2022
In-the-Wild Video Question Answering COLING 2022
Text-Aware Graph Embeddings for Donation Behavior Prediction COLING 2022
Leveraging Similar Users for Personalized Language Modeling with Limited Data ACL 2022
Demographic-Aware Language Model Fine-tuning as a Bias Mitigation Technique IJCNLP 2022
Demographic-Aware Language Model Fine-tuning as a Bias Mitigation Technique AACL 2022
When to Make Exceptions: Exploring Language Models as Accounts of Human Moral Judgment NIPS 2022
Using Paraphrases to Study Properties of Contextual Embeddings NAACL 2022
Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition Quality and Its Impact on Counselor Utterance Coding NAACL 2021
Exploring Self-Identified Counseling Expertise in Online Support Forums ACL 2021
How Good Is NLP? A Sober Look at NLP Tasks through the Lens of Social Impact ACL 2021
Exploring the Role of Context in Utterance-level Emotion, Act and Intent Classification in Conversations: An Empirical Study ACL 2021
Room to Grow: Understanding Personal Characteristics Behind Self Improvement Using Social Media NAACL 2021
Extractive and Abstractive Explanations for Fact-Checking and Evaluation of News NAACL 2021
MUSER: MUltimodal Stress detection using Emotion Recognition as an Auxiliary Task NAACL 2021
WhyAct: Identifying Action Reasons in Lifestyle Vlogs EMNLP 2021
Analyzing the Surprising Variability in Word Embedding Stability Across Languages EMNLP 2021
Hitting your MARQ: Multimodal ARgument Quality Assessment in Long Debate Video EMNLP 2021
STaCK: Sentence Ordering with Temporal Commonsense Knowledge EMNLP 2021
Mining the Cause of Political Decision-Making from Social Media: A Case Study of COVID-19 Policies across the US States EMNLP 2021
Micromodels for Efficient, Explainable, and Reusable Systems: A Case Study on Mental Health EMNLP 2021
Humor Knowledge Enriched Transformer for Understanding Multimodal Humor AAAI 2021
Exploring Self-Identified Counseling Expertise in Online Support Forums IJCNLP 2021
How Good Is NLP? A Sober Look at NLP Tasks through the Lens of Social Impact IJCNLP 2021
Exploring the Role of Context in Utterance-level Emotion, Act and Intent Classification in Conversations: An Empirical Study IJCNLP 2021
UPSTAGE: Unsupervised Context Augmentation for Utterance Classification in Patient-Provider Communication MLHC 2020
Building Location Embeddings from Physical Trajectories and Textual Representations AACL 2020
Compositional Demographic Word Embeddings EMNLP 2020
Improving Low Compute Language Modeling with In-Domain Embedding Initialisation EMNLP 2020
MIME: MIMicking Emotions for Empathetic Response Generation EMNLP 2020
COSMIC: COmmonSense knowledge for eMotion Identification in Conversations EMNLP 2020
Expressive Interviewing: A Conversational System for Coping with COVID-19 EMNLP 2020
Quantifying the Effects of COVID-19 on Mental Health Support Forums EMNLP 2020
KinGDOM: Knowledge-Guided DOMain Adaptation for Sentiment Analysis ACL 2020
Biased TextRank: Unsupervised Graph-Based Content Extraction COLING 2020
Exploring the Value of Personalized Word Embeddings COLING 2020
β€œJudge me by my size (noun), do you?” YodaLib: A Demographic-Aware Humor Generation Framework COLING 2020
Towards Extracting Medical Family History from Natural Language Interactions: A New Dataset and Baselines EMNLP 2019
Box of Lies: Multimodal Deception Detection in Dialogues NAACL 2019
Identifying Visible Actions in Lifestyle Vlogs ACL 2019
DialogueRNN: An Attentive RNN for Emotion Detection in Conversations AAAI 2019
Towards Multimodal Sarcasm Detection (An _Obviously_ Perfect Paper) ACL 2019
What Makes a Good Counselor? Learning to Distinguish between High-quality and Low-quality Counseling Conversations ACL 2019
Towards Extracting Medical Family History from Natural Language Interactions: A New Dataset and Baselines IJCNLP 2019
MELD: A Multimodal Multi-Party Dataset for Emotion Recognition in Conversations ACL 2019
Women’s Syntactic Resilience and Men’s Grammatical Luck: Gender-Bias in Part-of-Speech Tagging and Dependency Parsing ACL 2019
Predicting Human Activities from User-Generated Content ACL 2019
Representing Movie Characters in Dialogues CONLL 2019
ICON: Interactive Conversational Memory Network for Multimodal Emotion Detection EMNLP 2018
Automatic Detection of Fake News COLING 2018
Speaker Naming in Movies NAACL 2018
Factors Influencing the Surprising Instability of Word Embeddings NAACL 2018
CASCADE: Contextual Sarcasm Detection in Online Discussion Forums COLING 2018
Measuring Semantic Relations between Human Activities IJCNLP 2017
Identity Deception Detection IJCNLP 2017
Demographic-aware word associations EMNLP 2017
Identifying Usage Expression Sentences in Consumer Product Reviews IJCNLP 2017
Understanding and Predicting Empathic Behavior in Counseling Therapy ACL 2017
A Computational Analysis of the Language of Drug Addiction EACL 2017
Predicting Counselor Behaviors in Motivational Interviewing Encounters EACL 2017
Identifying Cross-Cultural Differences in Word Usage COLING 2016
Finding Optimists and Pessimists on Twitter ACL 2016
SemEval-2016 Task 1: Semantic Textual Similarity, Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Evaluation SEMEVAL 2016
Targeted Sentiment to Understand Student Comments COLING 2016
Co-Training for Topic Classification of Scholarly Data EMNLP 2015
Verbal and Nonverbal Clues for Real-life Deception Detection EMNLP 2015
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies NAACL 2015
Experiments in Open Domain Deception Detection EMNLP 2015
Mining Semantic Affordances of Visual Object Categories CVPR 2015
SemEval-2015 Task 2: Semantic Textual Similarity, English, Spanish and Pilot on Interpretability SEMEVAL 2015
Using Word Semantics To Assist English as a Second Language Learners NAACL 2015
Iterative Constrained Clustering for Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation EACL 2014
Cross-cultural Deception Detection ACL 2014
SimCompass: Using Deep Learning Word Embeddings to Assess Cross-level Similarity SEMEVAL 2014
SemEval-2014 Task 10: Multilingual Semantic Textual Similarity SEMEVAL 2014
Utterance-Level Multimodal Sentiment Analysis ACL 2013
Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation Using Wikipedia IJCNLP 2013
Sense and Reference Disambiguation in Wikipedia COLING 2012
Lyrics, Music, and Emotions CONLL 2012
Lyrics, Music, and Emotions EMNLP 2012
Multilingual Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis ACL 2012
Word Epoch Disambiguation: Finding How Words Change Over Time ACL 2012
Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT 2012 Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature NAACL 2012
Measuring Semantic Relatedness using Multilingual Representations SEMEVAL 2012
Towards Building a Multilingual Semantic Network: Identifying Interlingual Links in Wikipedia SEMEVAL 2012
SemEval-2012 Task 1: English Lexical Simplification SEMEVAL 2012
UNT: A Supervised Synergistic Approach to Semantic Text Similarity SEMEVAL 2012
Going Beyond Text: A Hybrid Image-Text Approach for Measuring Word Relatedness IJCNLP 2011
Improving the Impact of Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation on Contextual Opinion Analysis CONLL 2011
Learning to Grade Short Answer Questions using Semantic Similarity Measures and Dependency Graph Alignments ACL 2011
An Efficient Indexer for Large N-Gram Corpora ACL 2011
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies ACL 2011
Text Mining for Automatic Image Tagging COLING 2010
Cross Language Text Classification by Model Translation and Semi-Supervised Learning EMNLP 2010
Multilingual Subjectivity: Are More Languages Better? COLING 2010
SemEval-2010 Task 2: Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution SEMEVAL 2010
Quantifying the Limits and Success of Extractive Summarization Systems Across Domains NAACL 2010
The Lie Detector: Explorations in the Automatic Recognition of Deceptive Language ACL 2009
The Lie Detector: Explorations in the Automatic Recognition of Deceptive Language IJCNLP 2009
Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Automatic Topic Identification CONLL 2009
Integrating Knowledge for Subjectivity Sense Labeling NAACL 2009
Topic Identification Using Wikipedia Graph Centrality NAACL 2009
Cross-lingual Semantic Relatedness Using Encyclopedic Knowledge EMNLP 2009
Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation EMNLP 2009
Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing EMNLP 2009
Text-to-Text Semantic Similarity for Automatic Short Answer Grading EACL 2009
How to Add a New Language on the NLP Map: Building Resources and Tools for Languages with Scarce Resources IJCNLP 2008
Linguistically Motivated Features for Enhanced Back-of-the-Book Indexing ACL 2008
Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis Using Machine Translation EMNLP 2008
UNT: SubFinder: Combining Knowledge Sources for Automatic Lexical Substitution SEMEVAL 2007
Using Wikipedia for Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation NAACL 2007
Explorations in Automatic Book Summarization EMNLP 2007
Explorations in Automatic Book Summarization CONLL 2007
Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections ACL 2007
SemEval-2007 Task 14: Affective Text SEMEVAL 2007
UNT-Yahoo: SuperSenseLearner: Combining SenseLearner with SuperSense and other Coarse Semantic Features SEMEVAL 2007
Word Sense and Subjectivity COLING 2006
Word Sense and Subjectivity ACL 2006
Graph-based Algorithms for Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval NAACL 2006
Unsupervised Large-Vocabulary Word Sense Disambiguation with Graph-based Algorithms for Sequence Data Labeling EMNLP 2005
Making Computers Laugh: Investigations in Automatic Humor Recognition EMNLP 2005
SenseLearner: Word Sense Disambiguation for All Words in Unrestricted Text ACL 2005
Language Independent Extractive Summarization ACL 2005
A Language Independent Algorithm for Single and Multiple Document Summarization IJCNLP 2005
PageRank on Semantic Networks, with Application to Word Sense Disambiguation COLING 2004
Open Text Semantic Parsing Using FrameNet and WordNet NAACL 2004
TextRank: Bringing Order into Text EMNLP 2004
Co-training and Self-training for Word Sense Disambiguation CONLL 2004
Graph-based Ranking Algorithms for Sentence Extraction, Applied to Text Summarization ACL 2004
Letter Level Learning for Language Independent Diacritics Restoration CONLL 2002
Instance Based Learning with Automatic Feature Selection Applied to Word Sense Disambiguation COLING 2002
The Role of Lexico-Semantic Feedback in Open-Domain Textual Question-Answering ACL 2001
The Structure and Performance of an Open-Domain Question Answering System ACL 2000
Semantic Indexing using WordNet Senses ACL 2000