Papers by Gustave Cortal
Sequence-to-Sequence Language Models for Character and Emotion Detection in Dream Narratives (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Sigmund Freud's interpretation of dreams has been central to understanding human consciousness for centuries. |
| Approach: | They propose to automate the annotation process by using a natural language framework . they evaluate the impact of model size, prediction order of characters, and consideration of proper names and character traits . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs better with a large language model while having 28 times fewer parameters. |
Formalizing Style in Personal Narratives (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Personal narratives are stories authors construct to make meaning of their experiences. lack of a formal framework for analyzing these stylistic choices. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that formalizes style as patterns in linguistic choices authors make . they apply the framework to dream narratives including a case study on a war veteran . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework formalizes style in personal narratives as patterns in linguistic choices . it shows verbal processes dominate over mental ones, and linguistic choice influences psychological states . |