Speaker
Chloé Clavel
Senior Researcher in the ALMAnaCH team at INRIA Paris
Understanding Social Interactions in the Era of LLMs - the Challenges of Transparency
Bio
Chloé Clavel is a Senior Researcher in the ALMAnaCH team at Inria Paris, the French national research institute for digital science and technology. Her research interests lie in the areas of Affective Computing and Artificial Intelligence, at the crossroads of speech and natural language processing, machine learning, and social robotics. She works on computational models of socio-emotional behaviors such as sentiment, social stance, engagement, and trust in both human-human and human-agent interactions.
Abstract
Research on AI and social interaction is not entirely new. It belongs to the field of social and affective computing, which emerged in the late 1990s and has always drawn from both artificial intelligence and social science. In recent years, however, the field has shifted toward a dominant focus on generative large language models. These models are powerful but often opaque. This keynote presents current work on machine learning approaches, from classical methods to LLMs, for modeling the socio-emotional layer of interaction, with a particular focus on improving model transparency, and briefly introduces applications developed to support human skill development in education and health.