Publications

  1. Beyond Lexical Overlap: Validating Semantic Similarity Metrics for LLM-Based Video Caption Augmentation
    Authors: Juvenal Francisco Barajas*, Gio Jung*, Manali Seth, Lana Do, Malleeswari Jagabattuni, Andrew Scott, Shasta Ihorn, Vassilis Athitsos, Ilmi Yoon
    Venue: In press at ICIIT, 2026
  2. Using Item-Response Theory to Disentangle Local vs. Global Processing Dispositions in Autistic Cognition: Comparing Multi-Modal Comics vs. Text-Based Narratives in a Randomized Study
    Authors: Alexander Mario Blum, James M. Mason, Robin C. Irey, Yukie Toyama, Yunting Liu, Gio Jung, Andrew Scott, JinHo Kim, David Pearson
    Venue: In press at Discourse Processes Journal
  3. How well can VLMs rate audio descriptions: A multi-dimensional quantitative assessment framework
    Authors: Lana Do, Gio Jung, Juvenal Francisco Barajas, Andrew Scott, Shasta Ihorn, Vassilis Athitsos, Alexander Mario Blum, Ilmi Yoon
    Venue: Under revision at CHI, 2026
  4. Evaluation of Vision Language Models with Item Response Theory
    Authors: Andrew Scott, Gio Jung, Alexander Mario Blum, Juvenal Francisco Barajas, Manali Seth, Shasta Ihorn, Vassilis Athitsos, Ilmi Yoon
    Venue: Manuscript, 2026