Papers by Aylin Ece Gunal
Examining Spanish Counseling with MIDAS: a Motivational Interviewing Dataset in Spanish (2025.naacl-short)
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| Challenge: | Cultural and language factors influence counseling, but research has not explored whether this applies to other languages. |
| Approach: | They introduce a Spanish-language counseling dataset that contains expert annotations for counseling reflections and questions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset explores language-based differences in counselor behavior in English and Spanish and develops classifiers in monolingual and multilingual settings. |
Has It All Been Solved? Open NLP Research Questions Not Solved by Large Language Models (2024.lrec-main)
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Oana Ignat, Zhijing Jin, Artem Abzaliev, Laura Biester, Santiago Castro, Naihao Deng, Xinyi Gao, Aylin Ece Gunal, Jacky He, Ashkan Kazemi, Muhammad Khalifa, Namho Koh, Andrew Lee, Siyang Liu, Do June Min, Shinka Mori, Joan C. Nwatu, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Siqi Shen, Zekun Wang, Winston Wu, Rada Mihalcea
| Challenge: | Recent advances in large language models have led to misleading public discourse that “it’s all been solved.” |
| Approach: | They identify 14 research areas encompassing 45 research directions that require new research and are not directly solvable by LLMs. |
| Outcome: | The research areas identified are 45 research directions that require new research and are not directly solvable by LLMs. |