Saif Mohammad · page 2
Papers
- NRC VAD Lexicon v2: Norms for Valence, Arousal, and Dominance for over 55k English Terms (2025 · 19 citations)
Valence, arousal and dominance (VAD) are widely treated as the three main, largely independent axes of word meaning. - WorryWords: Norms of Anxiety Association for over 44k English Words (2024 · 12 citations)
Anxiety, a forward-looking unease about possible bad outcomes, matters for psychology and public health, yet there was no large lexicon linking English words to it. - The Nature of NLP: Analyzing Contributions in NLP Papers (2025 · 8 citations)
What counts as NLP research is contested. The authors argue that the answer can be found in how papers describe their own contributions. They build a taxonomy that splits contributions into two groups. Artifacts are new methods, datasets or tasks. Knowledge covers new insights about methods, datasets, tasks, language… - Words of Warmth: Trust and Sociability Norms for over 26k English Words (2025 · 7 citations)
Social psychology treats Warmth and Competence as the two main axes along which people judge others and groups. - Breaking Bad: Norms for Valence, Arousal, and Dominance for over 10k English Multiword Expressions (2025 · 4 citations)
This paper fills a gap in affect resources. Lexicons rating words for valence, arousal and dominance (VAD) already exist, but no large human-rated VAD resource covered multiword expressions (MWEs), whose meaning often cannot be built from their parts. The author took about 10.5k frequent English MWEs from the Muraki… - Affect, Body, Cognition, Demographics, and Emotion: The ABCDE of Text Features for Computational Affective Science (2026 · 3 citations)
Research in computational affective and social science often requires text that has already been tagged with features such as emotion-word usage or the author's age. - Age and Affect in Language: How Emotion Expression on Social Media Varies Across Adulthood (2026 · 1 citation)
Psychology research disagrees on how emotional well-being changes over adulthood. Some studies report a U-shape, others an inverted U, and others no change. Most of this evidence comes from surveys, which are small and prone to bias, and it usually measures only valence. The authors offer a corpus-based alternative.… - From Trial by Fire to Sleep like a Baby: A Lexicon of Anxiety Associations for 20K English Multi-Word Expressions (2026 · 1 citation)
Existing anxiety resources cover individual words or whole sentences and posts. Multiword expressions (MWEs) such as "on edge" or "cool as a cucumber" have been largely left out, even though their emotional meaning often cannot be derived from their parts. - Linguistic Distancing on Social Media: Indicators of Emotion Regulation Across Age Groups (2026 · 1 citation)
Emotion regulation is closely tied to well-being, and one healthy regulation strategy is stepping back psychologically from events. - From Trial by Fire To Sleep Like a Baby: A Lexicon of Anxiety Associations for 20k English Multiword Expressions (2026)
Lexicons that link words to anxiety already exist, but phrases larger than a single word have been mostly ignored. - I Came, I Saw, I Explained: Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs on Figurative Meaning in Memes (2026)
Memes often carry non-literal meaning through the interplay of picture and caption. However, it is poorly understood how generative multimodal large language models (MLLMs) combine the two channels to recognise that meaning. The authors define a combined task: a model must decide which kinds of figurative meaning a…
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