Social Influence in Conversations

Co-located with ACL 2023

Accepted Papers

Short Papers

Eliciting Rich Positive Emotions in Dialogue Generation

Ziwei Gong, Qingkai Min, Yue Zhang


Detoxifying Online Discourse: A Guided Response Generation Approach for Reducing Toxicity in User-Generated Text

Ritwik Bose, Ian Perera, Bonnie J Dorr

Long Papers

Large Language Models respond to Influence like Humans

Lewis Griffin, Bennett Kleinberg, Maximilian Mozes, Kimberly Mai, Maria Vau, Matthew Caldwell, Augustine N. Mavor-Parker


What Makes a Good Counter-Stereotype? Evaluating Strategies for Automated Responses to Stereotypical Text

Kathleen C. Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko, Isar Nejadgholi, Anna Kerkhof


BCause: Reducing group bias and promoting cohesive discussion in online deliberation processes through a simple and engaging  online deliberation tool

Lucas Anastasiou, Anna De Liddo


Measuring Lexico-Semantic Alignment in Debates with Contextualized Word Representations

Aina Garí Soler, Matthieu Labeau, Chloé Clavel


Exploring Linguistic Style Matching in Online Communities: The Role of Social Context and Conversation Dynamics

Aparna Ananthasubramaniam, Hong Chen, Jason Yan, Kenan Alkiek, Jiaxin Pei, Agrima Seth, Lavinia Dunagan, Minje Choi, Benjamin Litterer, David Jurgens

Already-published Paper (Non-Archival)

Opening up Minds with Argumentative Dialogues

Youmna Farag, Charlotte Olivia Brand, Jacopo Amidei, Paul Piwek, Tom Stafford, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Andreas Vlachos


ACL Findings Papers

An Annotated Dataset for Explainable Interpersonal Risk Factors of Mental Disturbance in Social Media Posts

Muskan Garg, Amirmohammad Shahbandegan, Amrit Chadha and Vijay Mago


NormMark: A Weakly Supervised Markov Model for Socio-cultural Norm Discovery

Farhad Moghimifar, shilin qu, Tongtong Wu, Yuan-Fang Li and Gholamreza Haffari


How Well do Large Language Models Perform on Faux Pas Tests?

Natalie Shapira, Guy Zwirn and Yoav Goldberg


Interactive Concept Learning for Uncovering Latent Themes in Large Text Collections

Maria Leonor Pacheco, Tunazzina Islam, Lyle Ungar, Ming Yin and Dan Goldwasser


Modeling Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Inference with Codenames Duet

Omar Shaikh, Caleb Ziems, William Held, Aryan Pariani, Fred Morstatter and Diyi Yang


On the Correspondence between Compositionality and Imitation in Emergent Neural Communication

Emily Cheng, Mathieu Rita and Thierry Poibeau


LEDA: a Large-Organization Email-Based Decision-Dialogue-Act Analysis Dataset

Mladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Ravi Shekhar, Stephen McQuistin, Ignacio Castro, Gareth Tyson, Colin Perkins, Patrick Healey and Matthew Purver


Don't Lose Yourself! Empathetic Response Generation via Explicit Self-Other Awareness

Weixiang Zhao, Yanyan Zhao, Xin Lu and Bing Qin


TransESC: Smoothing Emotional Support Conversation via Turn-Level State Transition

Weixiang Zhao, Yanyan Zhao, Shilong Wang and Bing Qin


Automatic Identification of Code-Switching Functions in Speech Transcripts

Ritu Belani and Jeffrey Flanigan


Boosting Distress Support Dialogue Responses with Motivational Interviewing Strategy

Anuradha Welivita and Pearl Pu


Counterfactual Probing for the influence of affect and specificity on Intergroup Bias

Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan, David Beaver, Kyle Mahowald and Junyi Jessy Li