Papers by Joel Mire
The Empirical Variability of Narrative Perceptions of Social Media Texts (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Identifying stories in social media texts provides a lens through which we can study how individuals and communities process and communicate experiences. |
| Approach: | They construct a taxonomy of crowd workers’ varied and nuanced perceptions of storytelling by open-coding their free-text rationales. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model shows that crowd workers disagree on categorical labels, free-text storytelling rationales, authorial intent, and more. |
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. |
Rejected Dialects: Biases Against African American Language in Reward Models (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Preference alignment via reward models can introduce new biases, hindering reward models’ fairness and equity. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for evaluating dialect biases in reward models and conduct a case study on biase . they compare reward models' preferences and behavior on paired White Mainstream English and machine-translated and human-written AAL corpora. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework evaluates dialect biases in reward models and compares them with paired White Mainstream English (WME) and machine-translated and human-written AAL corpora. |
Social Story Frames: Contextual Reasoning about Narrative Intent and Reception (2026.acl-long)
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Joel Mire, Maria Antoniak, Steven R Wilson, Zexin Ma, Achyutarama R Ganti, Andrew Piper, Maarten Sap
| Challenge: | SocialStoryFrames is a formalism for distilling plausible inferences about reader response . authors characterize frequency and interdependence of storytelling intents across communities . |
| Approach: | They propose a formalism for distilling plausible inferences about reader response using conversational context and a taxonomy grounded in narrative theory, linguistic pragmatics, and psychology. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be used to analyze reader responses in online communities. |
Where Do People Tell Stories Online? Story Detection Across Online Communities (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Story detection in online communities is a challenging task as stories are scattered across communities and interwoven with non-storytelling spans within a single text. |
| Approach: | They propose a toolkit to detect stories in online communities using an annotated reddit dataset and a codebook adapted to social media context. |
| Outcome: | The proposed toolkit includes an annotation-rich dataset of 502 Reddit posts and comments . it also includes a codebook adapted to the social media context and models to predict storytelling at document and span levels. |