João Sedoc

50 papers · 2017–2025 · 9 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (15) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (9) 🏃 Academic Marathon (8) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (8) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (77) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🏆 Keyword Champion (3) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (18) 🧬 Topic Evolution 👥 Mega-Team (77) 🚀 Conference Pioneer 💎 Century Club (50) 🔥 Unstoppable (9) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (217) 📈 Trend Setter ⚡ Prolific Year (9)

Conferences

EMNLP (16) ACL (13) NAACL (8) EACL (6) AAAI (2) IJCNLP (2) COLING (1) ICLR (1) IJCAI (1)

Top co-authors

Lyle Ungar (18) Simon Mille (5) Sebastian Gehrmann (5) Yufang Hou (5) Saad Mahamood (5) Salvatore Giorgi (5) Khyathi Raghavi Chandu (4) Valentin Barriere (4) Shabnam Tafreshi (4) Chris Callison-Burch (3)

Research topics

Applications (1)

Keywords

text classification (7) text generation (7) large language model (6) emotion classification (5) sentiment analysis (4) evaluation metrics (3) few-shot learning (3) human evaluation (3) emotion detection (3) natural language generation (3) item response theory (3) transfer learning (3) word embedding (3) personality prediction (3) chatbot evaluation (3) empathy prediction (3) dialogue system (2) semantic similarity (2) narrative generation (2) information retrieval (2)

Papers

The Illusion of Empathy: How AI Chatbots Shape Conversation Perception AAAI 2025

Evolving Stances on Reproducibility: A Longitudinal Study of NLP and ML Researchers’ Views and Experience of Reproducibility EMNLP 2025

Item Response Theory for Natural Language Processing EACL 2024

Modeling Human Subjectivity in LLMs Using Explicit and Implicit Human Factors in Personas EMNLP 2024

Large Human Language Models: A Need and the Challenges NAACL 2024

On the Role of Summary Content Units in Text Summarization Evaluation NAACL 2024

From Text to Context: Contextualizing Language with Humans, Groups, and Communities for Socially Aware NLP NAACL 2024

Findings of WASSA 2024 Shared Task on Empathy and Personality Detection in Interactions ACL 2024

Conditioning on Dialog Acts improves Empathy Style Transfer EMNLP 2023

Conceptor-Aided Debiasing of Large Language Models EMNLP 2023

A Needle in a Haystack: An Analysis of High-Agreement Workers on MTurk for Summarization ACL 2023

Common Law Annotations: Investigating the Stability of Dialog System Output Annotations ACL 2023

Findings of WASSA 2023 Shared Task on Empathy, Emotion and Personality Detection in Conversation and Reactions to News Articles ACL 2023

Linear Connectivity Reveals Generalization Strategies ICLR 2023

Benchmark Data and Evaluation Framework for Intent Discovery Around COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy EACL 2023

Automatic Reflection Generation for Peer-to-Peer Counseling EMNLP 2023

An Integrative Survey on Mental Health Conversational Agents to Bridge Computer Science and Medical Perspectives EMNLP 2023

WASSA 2022 Shared Task: Predicting Empathy, Emotion and Personality in Reaction to News Stories ACL 2022

Gendered Language in Resumes and its Implications for Algorithmic Bias in Hiring NAACL 2022

Automatic Document Selection for Efficient Encoder Pretraining EMNLP 2022

GEMv2: Multilingual NLG Benchmarking in a Single Line of Code EMNLP 2022

Clustering Examples in Multi-Dataset Benchmarks with Item Response Theory ACL 2022

Inducing Generalizable and Interpretable Lexica EMNLP 2022

Measuring the Language of Self-Disclosure across Corpora ACL 2022

Multi-Emotion Classification for Song Lyrics EACL 2021

The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics ACL 2021

Decoding Methods for Neural Narrative Generation ACL 2021

Topic Modeling for Maternal Health Using Reddit EACL 2021

WASSA 2021 Shared Task: Predicting Empathy and Emotion in Reaction to News Stories EACL 2021

The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics IJCNLP 2021

Decoding Methods for Neural Narrative Generation IJCNLP 2021

Measuring the ‘I don’t know’ Problem through the Lens of Gricean Quantity NAACL 2021

SMRT Chatbots: Improving Non-Task-Oriented Dialog with Simulated Multiple Reference Training EMNLP 2020

Incremental Neural Coreference Resolution in Constant Memory EMNLP 2020

COD3S: Diverse Generation with Discrete Semantic Signatures EMNLP 2020

Learning Emotion from 100 Observations: Unexpected Robustness of Deep Learning under Strong Data Limitations COLING 2020

Using the Poly-encoder for a COVID-19 Question Answering System EMNLP 2020

Collecting Verified COVID-19 Question Answer Pairs EMNLP 2020

Item Response Theory for Efficient Human Evaluation of Chatbots EMNLP 2020

The Role of Protected Class Word Lists in Bias Identification of Contextualized Word Representations ACL 2019

Conceptor Debiasing of Word Representations Evaluated on WEAT ACL 2019

Comparison of Diverse Decoding Methods from Conditional Language Models ACL 2019

Complexity-Weighted Loss and Diverse Reranking for Sentence Simplification NAACL 2019

Continual Learning for Sentence Representations Using Conceptors NAACL 2019

ChatEval: A Tool for Chatbot Evaluation NAACL 2019

Unsupervised Post-Processing of Word Vectors via Conceptor Negation AAAI 2019

Getting in Shape: Word Embedding SubSpaces IJCAI 2019

Modeling Empathy and Distress in Reaction to News Stories EMNLP 2018

Predicting Emotional Word Ratings using Distributional Representations and Signed Clustering EACL 2017

Semantic Word Clusters Using Signed Spectral Clustering ACL 2017