Large language models (LLMs) are capable of successfully performing many language
processing tasks zero-shot (without training data). If zero-shot LLMs can also reliably classify …

Modeling what makes an advertisement persuasive, ie, eliciting the desired response from
consumer, is critical to the study of propaganda, social psychology, and marketing. Despite …

Modeling persuasive language has the potential to better facilitate our decision-making
processes. Despite its importance, computational modeling of persuasion is still in its …

Role-playing games (RPGs) have a considerable amount of text in video game dialogues.
Quite often this text is semi-annotated by the game developers. In this paper, we extract a …

It is important to understand how people use words to persuade each other. This helps
understand debate, and detect persuasive narratives in regard to eg misinformation. While …

Modeling what makes an advertisement persuasive, ie, eliciting the desired response from
consumer, is critical to the study of propaganda, social psychology, and marketing. Despite …

Sender-receiver interactions, and specifically persuasion games, are widely researched in
economic modeling and artificial intelligence, and serve as a solid foundation for powerful …

This dissertation addresses the challenging task of modeling and interpreting visual
rhetorics in persuasive media using computational models. The focus is on self-supervised …