Just arrived in Burlington for #IC2S2! My student Krystal Gong will be presenting: 👉 Thursday @ 10:45 in Chittenden (413) about geopolitical stance formation in LLMs 👉 Friday @ 14:15 in Jost Foundation (422) about quantifying persuasive cues in text (arxiv.org/abs/2606.14580) …
- Persuasion Index is a taxonomy of 15 dimensions grounded in psychology and communication, implemented with 55 sub-features from lexicons and rule-based detectors.
- The authors evaluate PI on four public datasets varying in domain, style, and outcome measures, and report linear models carry meaningful predictive signal while staying lightweight.
- PI is released as an open-source package and web interface for principled and auditable analysis of human and AI-mediated communication.