Output

• Can Communication Increase Empathy and Perspective-Taking in Online Discussions?, Charlotte Vaaßen, ECPR conference 2023 & IACM, Thessaloniki 2023
• Same Author or Just Same Topic? Towards Content-Independent Style Representations, Anna Wegmann, Marijn Schraagen and Dong Nguyen, 7th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP at ACL 2022 paper video poster code. Try out the model on Hugging Face!
• Does It Capture STEL? A Modular, Similarity-based Linguistic Style Evaluation Framework, Anna Wegmann and Dong Nguyen, EMNLP 2021 paper video poster code

Student theses

We are also interested in advising student projects on topics related to the project.

• SAURON: Leveraging Semantically Similar Utterances to Enhance Writing Style Embedding Models, Tim Koornstra, Utrecht University (AI Msc), 2023 link
• Text-based empathy detection on social media, Nikos Bentis, Utrecht University (AI Msc), 2021 link
• Evaluating Perspective-Taking in Online Discussions with NLP, Evgeny Vasilets, UvA/VU Amsterdam, 2021 link
• Classification of Conversations: Distinguishing between Opposing Climate Change Communities on Reddit, Chieling Yueh, Utrecht University (AI Bsc), 2021 link
• Predicting balanced participation in two-person online conversations, Nikki Moolhuijsen, Utrecht University (AI Bsc), 2021, link