Papers by Laerdon Kim
Wait! There’s a Way Out: A Decision Mechanism for Forecasting Conversational Derailment (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches make decision to "trigger" based on the estimated likelihood of derailment given the preceding utterances, implicitly assuming that the conversation’s future trajectory is fixed. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for decoupling the decision to trigger from derailment likelihood estimation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is inspired by the first human baseline on this task, which shows that humans achieve dramatically lower false positive rates by selectively deferring their decision to trigger when they anticipate that tension is likely to subside. |
Current Semantic-change Quantification Methods Struggle with Semantic Change Discovery in the Wild (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for lexical semantic-change detection quantify changes in the meaning of words over time. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a top-k setup to evaluate semantic-change discovery despite lacking complete annotations on a battery of semantic-changing detection methods. |
| Outcome: | The proposed setup extends the annotations in the commonly used LiverpoolFC and SemEval-EN benchmarks by 85% and 90%. |