Publications

Aaron Marker, Oscar Kjell, Vasudha Varadarajan, H Andrew Schwartz (2026). Evaluating Document-Tuned Transformer Representations for Person-level Mental Health Assessment. Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2026).
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Vasudha Varadarajan, Akhila Yerukola, Mona T Diab, Maarten Sap (2026). CCBENCH: Assessing LLM Cultural Competence via Implicitly Signaled Norms using Health Queries. COLM.
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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 (2025). Towards Truer Scores of Mental States: Computational Linguistics for Psychological Measurement.
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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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