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Computing Emotion Dynamics from Text and Exploring their use as Biosocial Markers of Overall Well-being
DownloadFall 2023
Language is inherently social -- it is influenced by our lived experiences and environments, and impacts the way in which we communicate with each other. Therefore, it is not a surprise that our health impacts our language. The patterns with which emotion changes over time -- emotion dynamics --...
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Finding reliable resources and Chatting with Mira while considering emotions when the scenario is unscripted
DownloadSpring 2024
The primary wellspring of information, the Internet, abounds with misinfor- mation, particularly in the domains of mental health and psychology. This also affects the reliability and truth of responses of chatbots counting on unverified data. To address this concern, the MIRA project started to...
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Spring 2021
Knowledge graphs become a de facto standard for representing data in situations where relations between individual pieces of information are important. These semantically rich data structures provide opportunities to develop methods and algorithms for new ways of analyzing and utilizing data. In...
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Spring 2016
Morphologically complex languages such as Arabic pose several challenges in Natural Language Processing (NLP) due to their complexity and token sparsity. Most techniques approach the problem by transforming the words of the language from their sparse surface form representation to a less sparse...
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Fall 2022
Gutierrez Gutierrez, Candelario A.
Social media platforms are online public venues where conversations about a wide range of public interests take place. Users can interact within a social platform in two ways: (i) they can post an opinion, talk about an event, or share a personal status, optionally accompanied with a video, an...
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Spring 2019
Online advertising is one of the most lucrative forms of advertising, with digital ad-spending expected to reach $83 billion in 2017, making it one of the most important channels of advertising media. Contextual Advertising is a type of online display advertising that takes cues from the content...