Chenhao Wu
2026
The Subjectivity of Respect in Police Traffic Stops: Modeling Community Perspectives in Body-Worn Camera Footage
Preni Golazizian | Elnaz Rahmati | Jackson Trager | Zhivar Sourati | Nona Ghazizadeh | Georgios Chochlakis | Jose J. Alcocer | Kerby Bennett | Aarya Vijay Devnani | Parsa Hejabi | Harry G. Muttram | Akshay Kiran Padte | Mehrshad Saadatinia | Chenhao Wu | Alireza Salkhordeh Ziabari | Michael Sierra-Ar\'evalo | Nicholas Weller | Shrikanth Narayanan | Benjamin A.t. Graham | Morteza Dehghani
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Preni Golazizian | Elnaz Rahmati | Jackson Trager | Zhivar Sourati | Nona Ghazizadeh | Georgios Chochlakis | Jose J. Alcocer | Kerby Bennett | Aarya Vijay Devnani | Parsa Hejabi | Harry G. Muttram | Akshay Kiran Padte | Mehrshad Saadatinia | Chenhao Wu | Alireza Salkhordeh Ziabari | Michael Sierra-Ar\'evalo | Nicholas Weller | Shrikanth Narayanan | Benjamin A.t. Graham | Morteza Dehghani
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Traffic stops are among the most frequent police–civilian interactions, and body-worn cameras (BWCs) provide a unique record of how these encounters unfold. Respect is a central dimension of these interactions, shaping public trust and perceived legitimacy, yet its interpretation is inherently subjective and shaped by lived experience, rendering community-specific perspectives a critical consideration. Leveraging unprecedented access to Los Angeles Police Department BWC footage, we introduce the first large-scale traffic-stop dataset annotated with respect ratings and free-text rationales from multiple perspectives. By sampling annotators from police-affiliated, justice-system-impacted, and non-affiliated Los Angeles residents, we enable the systematic study of perceptual differences across diverse communities. To this end, (i) we develop a domain-specific evaluation rubric grounded in procedural justice theory, LAPD training materials, and extensive fieldwork; (ii) we introduce a criterion-driven preference data construction framework for perspective-consistent alignment, and (ii) we propose a perspective-aware modeling framework that predicts personalized respect ratings and generates annotator-specific rationales for both officers and civilian drivers from traffic-stop transcripts. Across all three annotator groups, our approach improves both rating prediction performance and rationale alignment. Our perspective-aware framework enables law enforcement to better understand diverse community expectations, providing a vital tool for building public trust and procedural legitimacy.
2024
Continuous Relational Diffusion Driven Topic Model with Multi-grained Text for Microblog
Chenhao Wu | Ruifang He | Chang Liu | Bo Wang
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
Chenhao Wu | Ruifang He | Chang Liu | Bo Wang
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
Topic model is a statistical model that leverages unsupervised learning to mine hidden topics in document collections. The data sparsity and colloquialism of social texts make it difficult to accurately mine the topics. Traditional methods assume that there are only 0/1-state relationships between the two parties in the social networks, but the relationship status in real life is more complicated, such as continuously changing relationships with different degrees of intimacy. This paper proposes a continuous relational diffusion driven topic model (CRTM) with multi-grained text for microblog to realize the continuous representation of the relationship state and make up for the context and structural information lost by previous representation methods. Multi-grained text representation learning distinguishes the impact of formal and informal expression on the topics further and alleviates colloquialism problems. Specifically, based on the original social network, the reconstructed social network with continuous relationship status is obtained by using information diffusion technology. The graph convolution model is utilized to learn node embeddings through the new social network. Finally, the neural variational inference is applied to generate topics according to continuous relationships. We validate CRTM on three real datasets, and the experimental results show the effectiveness of the scheme.
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- Jose J. Alcocer 1
- Kerby Bennett 1
- Georgios Chochlakis 1
- Morteza Dehghani 1
- Aarya Vijay Devnani 1
- Nona Ghazizadeh 1
- Preni Golazizian 1
- Benjamin A.t. Graham 1
- Ruifang He 1
- Parsa Hejabi 1
- Chang Liu 1
- Harry G. Muttram 1
- Shrikanth Narayanan 1
- Akshay Kiran Padte 1
- Elnaz Rahmati 1
- Mehrshad Saadatinia 1
- Michael Sierra-Ar\'evalo 1
- Zhivar Sourati 1
- Jackson Trager 1
- Bo Wang 1
- Nicholas Weller 1
- Alireza Salkhordeh Ziabari 1