Publications

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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).

Adithya v Ganesan, Vasudha Varadarajan, Yash Kumar Lal, Veerle C Eijsbroek, Katarina Kjell, Oscar NE Kjell, Tanuja Dhanasekaran, Elizabeth C Stade, Johannes C Eichstaedt, Ryan L Boyd, Others (2024). Explaining GPT-4's Schema of Depression Using Machine Behavior Analysis. Under Review at Nature Mental Health.

Vasudha Varadarajan, Allison Lahnala, Adithya v Ganesan, Gourab Dey, Siddharth Mangalik, Ana-Maria Bucur, Nikita Soni, Rajath Rao, Kevin Lanning, Isabella Vallejo, Others (2024). Archetypes and Entropy: Theory-Driven Extraction of Evidence for Suicide Risk. Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2024).

Vasudha Varadarajan, Sverker Sikström, Oscar Kjell, H Schwartz (2024). ALBA: Adaptive Language-Based Assessments for Mental Health. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers).

Vasudha Varadarajan, Swanie Juhng, Syeda Mahwish, Xiaoran Liu, Jonah Luby, Christian Luhmann, H Andrew Schwartz (2023). Transfer and active learning for dissonance detection: Addressing the rare-class challenge. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.