Papers by Jocelyn Shen
HEART-felt Narratives: Tracing Empathy and Narrative Style in Personal Stories with LLMs (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Empathy is a foundational psychological process that drives many prosocial functions. |
| Approach: | They propose a theory-based taxonomy that delineates elements of narrative style that can lead to empathy with the narrator of a story. |
| Outcome: | The proposed taxonomy delineates elements of narrative style that can lead to empathy with the narrator of a story. |
Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | EmpathicStories is a dataset of 1,500 personal stories annotated with empathic similarity features and 2,000 pairs of stories annnotated by empathism. |
| Approach: | They propose a task to identify similarity in personal stories based on empathic resonance . they use a dataset of 1,500 personal stories annotated with empathism features . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms semantic similarity models on correlation and retrieval metrics. |
EmpathicStories++: A Multimodal Dataset for Empathy Towards Personal Experiences (2024.findings-acl)
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Jocelyn Shen, Yubin Kim, Mohit Hulse, Wazeer Zulfikar, Sharifa Alghowinem, Cynthia Breazeal, Hae Park
| Challenge: | Existing datasets for empathy modeling are limited in the ways they are not captured in the wild. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal dataset for empathy during personal experience sharing that contains 53 hours of video, audio, and text data of 41 participants. |
| Outcome: | The EmpathicStories++ dataset contains 53 hours of video, audio, and text data of 41 participants sharing vulnerable experiences and reading empathically resonant stories with an AI agent. |