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5 papers
Communication, Vocalisation, and Language
Peter Wallis
The contention is that the current batch of Large Language Models don't *understand* language, but they *do* it. Rather than LLMs forming some kind of ``distributed representation'…
Revisiting the DARPA Communicator Data using Conversation Analysis
Peter Wallis
The state of the art in human computer conversation leaves something to be desired and, indeed, talking to a computer can be down-right annoying. This paper describes an approach t…
An Enactivist account of Mind Reading in Natural Language Understanding
Peter Wallis
In this paper we apply our understanding of the radical enactivist agenda to the classic AI-hard problem of Natural Language Understanding. When Turing devised his famous test the…
Mind Reading at Work: Cooperation without common ground
Peter Wallis
As Stefan Kopp and Nicole Kramer say in their recent paper[Frontiers in Psychology 12 (2021) 597], despite some very impressive demonstrations over the last decade or so, we still…
Introducing the Talk Markup Language (TalkML):Adding a little social intelligence to industrial speech interfaces
Peter Wallis
Virtual Personal Assistants like Siri have great potential but such developments hit the fundamental problem of how to make computational devices that understand human speech. Natu…