Colloquium for all interested guests – on site and online
The Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) cordially invites interested persons to its lecture series. On Wednesday, May 8, 2024 from 2 to 3 p.m., the computer linguist Aswathy Velutharambath (Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), Stuttgart University) will speak on the topic "Modelling regulatory focus and deception in text for style transfer". In the lecture, she will talk about two examples of computer linguistic modeling of psychological concepts.
The colloquium will be held in English in room D 141 at Trier University and also online. After registration at events(at)leibniz-psychology.org we will send you the link to the online event.
Abstract: Modelling regulatory focus and deception in text for style transfer
In the talk, I will present my research on automatically detecting regulatory focus and deceptive intent in text, and discuss the challenges involved. Also, give an introduction to our novel German deception corpus, designed to study the interplay between authors' beliefs, factual accuracy, and intent to deceive in argumentation. Lastly, I outline my plans to use these concepts to conduct text style transfer to craft persuasive arguments for more effective communication.