Publications
Publications
In Preparation
Ratna Kandala, Ali Faraji-Rad, Angelique Pershon, Vera Vine & Katie Hoemann. For daily well-being, the context-specificity of emotion words matters as much as the variety.
Under Review
Ratna Kandala, Niels Vanhasbroeck, Bastiaan Tamm, Hugo Van hamme, Peter Kuppens, Batja Mesquita & Katie Hoemann. Toward an Ecology of Emotions in Daily Life. [Psyarxiv]
Why Did the AI Say That? An Interactive Practical Guide for Explaining Multimodal Medical Decisions
Loneliness as a Case Study for Social Reward Misalignment
Niva Manchanda, Akshata Kishore Moharir & Ratna Kandala. Evaluating Adaptive AI Support: Human Perceptions of LLM-Generated Relationship Advice.
In Revision
Ratna Kandala, Niels Vanhasbroeck & Katie Hoemann. Evaluating BERTopic on Open-Ended Data: A Case Study with Belgian Dutch Daily Narratives. [arXiv]
Dharma, Data, and Deception: An LLM-Powered Rhetorical Analysis of Cow-Urine Health Claims on YouTube
EchoGuard: An Agentic Framework Using Knowledge Graphs as Episodic Memory to Scaffold Awareness of Manipulative Communication
Conference(s) (Main):
Ratna Kandala & Akshata Kishore Moharir (2026). Graph Agents: Scaling Responsible Mental Healthcare. To appear in the proceedings of the AAAI 2026 Spring Symposium Series.
Ratna Kandala & Katie Hoemann (2026). Modeling the Semantics of Emotion: A Culturally Grounded Approach to Flemish Narratives. To appear in the proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting 2026.
Ratna Nirupama & Prakash Mondal. (2023). On the Implementation of the Algorithm for Representation of Discontinuity in Natural Language. ICNLP 2023. (IEEE Xplore) Link Best Presentation Award
Ratna Nirupama & Prakash Mondal. (2022). The Representation of Discontinuity and the Correspondence Principle. PACLIC36. (ACL-Anthology) Link
Conference(s) (Workshops):
Ananth Kandala, Ratna Kandala, Akshata Kishore Moharir, Niva Manchanda & Sunaina Singh. Cross-Lingual Mental Health Ontologies for Indian Languages: Bridging Patient Expression and Clinical Understanding through Explainable AI and Human-in-the-Loop Validation. To appear in the proceedings of the NLP-AI4Health (Integrating NLP and AI for Multilingual and Patient-Centric Healthcare Communication) workshop, IJCNLP-AACL 2025. [arXiv]
Ratna Kandala, Akshata Kishore Moharir & Divya Nayak. (2025). From Explainability to Action: A Generative Operational Framework for Integrating XAI in Clinical Mental Health Screening. In Proceedings of the MHSM 2025 Workshop at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '25) (IEEE Xplore). [arXiv]
Ratna Kandala & Katie Hoemann. (2025). LLMs vs. Traditional Sentiment Tools in Psychology: An Evaluation on Belgian-Dutch Narratives. Workshop on Evaluating the Evolving LLM Lifecycle: Benchmarks, Emergent Abilities, and Scaling. The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025.
Ratna Kandala & Katie Hoemann. (2025). Embedding Emotions: Measuring What Matters in Flemish Daily Stories. Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop, The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025.
Akshata Kishore Moharir & Ratna Kandala. (2025). From Algorithm to Alliance: A Blueprint for Responsible and Explainable AI in Mental Health Screening. Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop, The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025.
Ratna Nirupama & Prakash Mondal. (2024). On the Unified Representation of Continuity and Discontinuity and its Neuro-Cognitive Grounding. Folia Linguistica, Mouton de Gruyter. Link
Ratna Kandala. (2025). Conjoined Predication and Scalar Implicature (forthcoming in The Handbook of Semantics, Springer Nature). [arXiv]
Blog Posts:
Ratna Kandala & Akshata Kishore Moharir (2025). XAI: Explaining How AI Makes Decisions. NeurIPS 2025 Education Program, The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025 [Link].
Ratna Kandala & Katie Hoemann. Are Lexicon-Based Tools Still the Gold Standard for Valence Analysis in Low-Resource Flemish? [arXiv]
Ratna Kandala & Prakash Mondal. A Unified Representation for Continuity and Discontinuity: Syntactic and Computational Motivations. [arXiv]
Ratna Kandala & Prakash Mondal. Towards A Unified System of Representation for Continuity and Discontinuity in Natural Language. [arXiv]