Papers by Meghan Guo
Pouring Your Heart Out: Investigating the Role of Figurative Language in Online Expressions of Empathy (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Empathy is a social mechanism used to support and strengthen emotional connection with others, including in online communities. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a subcategory of linguistic phenomena, figurative language, to detect online expressions of empathy. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on the use of metaphor, idiom, and hyperbole in online expressions of empathy, with 0.942 and 0.809 F1 scores. |