Publications

Vasudha Varadarajan, Syeda Mahwish, Xiaoran Liu, Julia Buffolino, Christian C Luhmann, Ryan L Boyd, H Andrew Schwartz (2025). Capturing Human Cognitive Styles with Language: Towards an Experimental Evaluation Paradigm. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies.
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Nikita Soni, August Håkan Nilsson, Syeda Mahwish, Vasudha Varadarajan, H Andrew Schwartz, Ryan L Boyd (2025). Who We Are, Where We Are: Mental Health at the Intersection of Person, Situation, and Large Language Models. Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2025).
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Allison Lahnala★, Vasudha Varadarajan★, Lucie Flek, H Andrew Schwartz, Ryan L Boyd (2025). Unifying the Extremes: Developing a Unified Model for Detecting and Predicting Extremist Traits and Radicalization. To Appear in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media.
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Vasudha Varadarajan★, Salvatore Giorgi★, Siddharth Mangalik, Nikita Soni, David M Markowitz, H Andrew Schwartz (2025). The Consistent Lack of Variance of Psychological Factors Expressed by LLMs and Spambots. Proceedings of the Workshop on Detecting AI Generated Content at COLING 2025.
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Khushboo Singh, Vasudha Varadarajan, Adithya v Ganesan, August Håkan Nilsson, Nikita Soni, Syeda Mahwish, Pranav Chitale, Ryan L Boyd, Lyle Ungar, Richard N Rosenthal, Others (2025). Systematic Evaluation of Auto-Encoding and Large Language Model Representations for Capturing Author States and Traits. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025.
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Vasudha Varadarajan, Hui Xu, Rebecca Astrid Boehme, Mariam Marlan Mirstrom, Sverker Sikstrom, H Andrew Schwartz (2025). MAQuA: Adaptive Question-Asking for Multidimensional Mental Health Screening using Item Response Theory. arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.07279.
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Vasudha Varadarajan, Allison Lahnala, Sujeeth Vankudari, Akshay Raghavan, Scott Feltman, Syeda Mahwish, Camilo Ruggero, Roman Kotov, H Andrew Schwartz (2025). Linking Language-based Distortion Detection to Mental Health Outcomes. Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2025).
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Charles Welch, Allison Lahnala, Vasudha Varadarajan, Lucie Flek, Rada Mihalcea, J Lomax Boyd, João Sedoc (2025). ISCA: A Framework for Interview-Style Conversational Agents. arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.14344.
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Eunkyu Park, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Vasudha Varadarajan, Mingxi Yan, Gunhee Kim, Maarten Sap, Motahhare Eslami (2025). Critical or Compliant? The Double-Edged Sword of Reasoning in Chain-of-Thought Explanations. arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.12001.
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Adithya v Ganesan, Siddharth Mangalik, Vasudha Varadarajan, Nikita Soni, Swanie Juhng, João Sedoc, H Andrew Schwartz, Salvatore Giorgi, Ryan L Boyd (2024). From Text to Context: Contextualizing Language with Humans, Groups, and Communities for Socially Aware NLP. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 5: Tutorial Abstracts).
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