Papers by Julia Buffolino
Capturing Human Cognitive Styles with Language: Towards an Experimental Evaluation Paradigm (2025.naacl-short)
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Vasudha Varadarajan, Syeda Mahwish, Xiaoran Liu, Julia Buffolino, Christian Luhmann, Ryan L. Boyd, H. Schwartz
| Challenge: | While NLP models often capture cognitive states via language, validity of predicted states is determined by comparing annotations created without access to the cognitive states of the authors. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for evaluating language-based cognitive style models against human behavior by using an experiment-based framework. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework shows that language features can predict participants’ decision style with moderate-to-high accuracy (AUC 0.8), demonstrating that cognitive style can be partly captured and revealed by discourse patterns. |