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Argumentation-Based Person-Tailored Storytelling for Older Adults: A Reflective Hybrid AI Architecture

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arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 24

ARGUS: Theory-of-Mind Guided Argument Generation with Strategy-Aware Planning and Knowledge Grounding

ARGUS is a new agent-based framework for persuasive argument generation that incorporates a Theory-of-Mind Reasoner to model audience beliefs and values. It uses a component-aware planner to break arguments into subtopics, assign rhetorical functions (logos, pathos, ethos, kairos), and guide evidence retrieval during planning. A refinement module iteratively addresses multi-dimensional weaknesses, and evaluations on three benchmarks show ARGUS outperforming strong baselines and effectively shifting resistant audience stances.

By Zhe Hu
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 12

Activating the Annotator: Operationalising Lived Experience in Data Annotation

The paper introduces AXLE, a pre‑annotation stage that uses a scenario vignette and guided conversation to generate a first‑person micro‑narrative for annotators. In a 2x2 study with 104 annotators on ambiguous hate‑speech items, AXLE increased identity resonance, sensitivity to harm, label entropy, and reduced inter‑annotator agreement, suggesting it surfaces plural perspectives rather than forcing consensus.

By Sheza Munir, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
arXiv AI
Sep 28

Thinking Less to Simulate Better: Intuitive Prompting Improves LLM Agents Simulating Individual Social Media Reactions, Including Unfamiliar Content

The study evaluates how well language‑model agents can simulate individual social media reactions by comparing predictions under different prompt conditions. Eight Serbian participants’ reactions to 68 posts were recorded, and four language models were asked to predict these reactions using prompts that varied in profile content and instruction style. The results show that prompts emphasizing attitudinal content and intuitive, immediate responses yield the highest fidelity, outperforming demographic backstories and a crowd baseline, and suggesting that such agents could act as general‑purpose simulated users.

By Ljubisa Bojic, Tijana Stanic, Joerg Matthes, Agariadne Dwinggo Samala, Bojana Dinic, Jue Wang
arXiv AI
Sep 16

Verifiable Social Reasoning for LLM Assistants

arXiv:2609.17496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM assistants are widely used for daily social advice, yet evaluating their social reasoning in such consultation settings remains challenging since (...

By Amir Taubenfeld, Zorik Gekhman, Avigail Grinstein-Dabush, Itay Laish, Ariel Goldstein, Marian Croak, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias, Amir Feder