3 papers
cs.CL2025
Can LLMs Simulate L2-English Dialogue? An Information-Theoretic Analysis of L1-Dependent Biases
Rena Gao, Xuetong Wu, Tatsuki Kuribayashi +6
This study evaluates Large Language Models' (LLMs) ability to simulate non-native-like English use observed in human second language (L2) learners interfered with by their native f…
cs.CL2025
An Interpretable and Crosslingual Method for Evaluating Second-Language Dialogues
Rena Gao, Jingxuan Wu, Xuetong Wu +4
We analyse the cross-lingual transferability of a dialogue evaluation framework that assesses the relationships between micro-level linguistic features (e.g. backchannels) and macr…
cs.CL2025
Interaction Matters: An Evaluation Framework for Interactive Dialogue Assessment on English Second Language Conversations
Rena Gao, Carsten Roever, Jey Han Lau
We present an evaluation framework for interactive dialogue assessment in the context of English as a Second Language (ESL) speakers. Our framework collects dialogue-level interact…