Publications
Publications
In Preparation
Ratna Kandala, Ali Faraji-Rad, Angelique Pershon, Vera Vine, & Katie Hoemann. Comparing the diversity and granularity of emotion word use in daily life.
Under Review
Ratna Kandala, Niels Vanhasbroeck & Katie Hoemann. Evaluating BERTopic on Open-Ended Data: A Case Study with Belgian Dutch Daily Narratives. [arXiv]
Ratna Kandala, Niels Vanhasbroeck, Bastiaan Tamm, Hugo Van hamme, Peter Kuppens, Batja Mesquita & Katie Hoemann. Toward an Ecology of Emotions in Daily Life. [Psyarxiv]
Conference(s) (Main and Workshop Papers):
Niva Manchanda, Akshata Kishore Moharir, Sri Sangara Sritharan & Ratna Kandala. Evaluating Adaptive AI Support: Human Perceptions of LLM-Generated Relationship Advice. To appear in the proceedings of the 10th Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents Workshop (LaCATODA), AAAI 2026, Singapore, JAN 2026 (To appear).
Ratna Kandala, Katie Hoemann (2026). Modeling the Semantics of Emotion: A Culturally Grounded Approach to Flemish Narratives. In Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting 2026 (To appear).
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 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
Niva Manchanda, Akshata Kishore Moharir, Sri Sangara Sritharan & Ratna Kandala. Evaluating the Impact of LLM Relationship Advice on User Satisfaction and Attitude Change. Bridging AI and Behavior Change (ABC), AAAI 2026, Singapore, JAN 2026.
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.
Niva Manchanda, Akshata Kishore Moharir, Isabel Michel & Ratna Kandala. Do LLMs Give Good Romantic Relationship Advice? A Study on User Satisfaction and Attitude Change. First Workshop on LLM Persona Modeling, The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Mexico City 2025.
Ratna Kandala, Katie Hoemann. (2025) Using Contextual Embeddings to Map the Rich Topography of Everyday Emotion. Women in Machine Learning (WiML) symposium, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
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]