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most citedImproving Chinese Story Generation via Awareness of Syntactic Dependencies and Semantics

7 citations · 17 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CL2025

Drivel-ology: Challenging LLMs with Interpreting Nonsense with Depth

Yang Wang, Chenghao Xiao, Chia-Yi Hsiao +4

We introduce Drivelology, a unique linguistic phenomenon characterised as "nonsense with depth" - utterances that are syntactically coherent yet pragmatically paradoxical, emotiona…

cs.CL2025

Who's Laughing Now? An Overview of Computational Humour Generation and Explanation

Tyler Loakman, William Thorne, Chenghua Lin

The creation and perception of humour is a fundamental human trait, positioning its computational understanding as one of the most challenging tasks in natural language processing…

cs.CL2025

Exploring Task Performance with Interpretable Models via Sparse Auto-Encoders

Shun Wang, Tyler Loakman, Youbo Lei +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) are traditionally viewed as black-box algorithms, therefore reducing trustworthiness and obscuring potential approaches to increasing performance on do…

cs.CL2025

Comparing Apples to Oranges: A Dataset & Analysis of LLM Humour Understanding from Traditional Puns to Topical Jokes

Tyler Loakman, William Thorne, Chenghua Lin

Humour, as a complex language form, is derived from myriad aspects of life. Whilst existing work on computational humour has focussed almost exclusively on short pun-based jokes, w…

cs.CL2024

With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear: Sound Symbolism Experiments with Multimodal Large Language Models

Tyler Loakman, Yucheng Li, Chenghua Lin

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated aptitude as potential substitutes for human participants in experiments testing psycholin…

cs.CL2024

MMTE: Corpus and Metrics for Evaluating Machine Translation Quality of Metaphorical Language

Shun Wang, Ge Zhang, Han Wu +3

Machine Translation (MT) has developed rapidly since the release of Large Language Models and current MT evaluation is performed through comparison with reference human translation…

cs.CL2024

ReproHum #0087-01: Human Evaluation Reproduction Report for Generating Fact Checking Explanations

Tyler Loakman, Chenghua Lin

This paper presents a partial reproduction of Generating Fact Checking Explanations by Anatanasova et al (2020) as part of the ReproHum element of the ReproNLP shared task to repro…

cs.CL2024

Train & Constrain: Phonologically Informed Tongue-Twister Generation from Topics and Paraphrases

Tyler Loakman, Chen Tang, Chenghua Lin

Previous work in phonologically and phonetically grounded language generation has mainly focused on domains such as puns and poetry. In this article, we present new work on the gen…

cs.CL2023

A Cross-Attention Augmented Model for Event-Triggered Context-Aware Story Generation

Chen Tang, Tyler Loakman, Chenghua Lin

Despite recent advancements, existing story generation systems continue to encounter difficulties in effectively incorporating contextual and event features, which greatly influenc…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

The Iron(ic) Melting Pot: Reviewing Human Evaluation in Humour, Irony and Sarcasm Generation

Tyler Loakman, Aaron Maladry, Chenghua Lin

Human evaluation is often considered to be the gold standard method of evaluating a Natural Language Generation system. However, whilst its importance is accepted by the community…

cs.CL2023

TwistList: Resources and Baselines for Tongue Twister Generation

Tyler Loakman, Chen Tang, Chenghua Lin

Previous work in phonetically-grounded language generation has mainly focused on domains such as lyrics and poetry. In this paper, we present work on the generation of tongue twist…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

CADGE: Context-Aware Dialogue Generation Enhanced with Graph-Structured Knowledge Aggregation

Hongbo Zhang, Chen Tang, Tyler Loakman +3

Commonsense knowledge is crucial to many natural language processing tasks. Existing works usually incorporate graph knowledge with conventional graph neural networks (GNNs), resul…

cs.CL2022★ 7 cited

Improving Chinese Story Generation via Awareness of Syntactic Dependencies and Semantics

Henglin Huang, Chen Tang, Tyler Loakman +2

Story generation aims to generate a long narrative conditioned on a given input. In spite of the success of prior works with the application of pre-trained models, current neural m…

cs.CL2022★ 6 cited

NGEP: A Graph-based Event Planning Framework for Story Generation

Chen Tang, Zhihao Zhang, Tyler Loakman +2

To improve the performance of long text generation, recent studies have leveraged automatically planned event structures (i.e. storylines) to guide story generation. Such prior wor…

cs.CL2022

Terminology-aware Medical Dialogue Generation

Chen Tang, Hongbo Zhang, Tyler Loakman +2

Medical dialogue generation aims to generate responses according to a history of dialogue turns between doctors and patients. Unlike open-domain dialogue generation, this requires…