Papers by Abdallah El Ali
Label Effects: Shared Heuristic Reliance in Trust Assessment by Humans and LLM-as-a-Judge (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as automated evaluators . et al., 2024: strong labels can foster trust but also undermine it . |
| Approach: | They show that LLMs' source labels bias trust judgments by humans . they use eye-tracking data to analyze LLM internal states during judgment . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is biased by disclosed source labels, the authors show . eye-tracking data show humans rely heavily on source labels for judgments . |
Rethinking the Alignment of Psychotherapy Dialogue Generation with Motivational Interviewing Strategies (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Motivational interviewing (MI) is a client-centered counseling technique that encourages individuals to change behaviors through emphatic conversations. |
| Approach: | They propose to use large language models to generate more controllable dialogues with explainability by prompting LLMs to predict appropriate strategies as reasoning and utilizing these strategies to guide dialogue generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model generates more controllable and explainable dialogues with a set of MI skills. |