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Investigating the Representation of Backchannels and Fillers in Fine-tuned Language Models
Yu Wang, Leyi Lao, Langchu Huang +3
Backchannels and fillers are important linguistic expressions in dialogue, but often treated as 'noise' to be bypassed in modern transformer-based language models (LMs). Here, we s…
Into the Wild: When Robots Are Not Welcome
Shaul Ashkenazi, Gabriel Skantze, Jane Stuart-Smith +1
Social robots are increasingly being deployed in public spaces, where they face not only technological difficulties and unexpected user utterances, but also objections from stakeho…
Detecting Referring Expressions in Visually Grounded Dialogue with Autoregressive Language Models
Bram Willemsen, Gabriel Skantze
In this paper, we explore the use of a text-only, autoregressive language modeling approach for the extraction of referring expressions from visually grounded dialogue. More specif…
"Dyadosyncrasy", Idiosyncrasy and Demographic Factors in Turn-Taking
Julio Cesar Cavalcanti, Gabriel Skantze
Turn-taking in dialogue follows universal constraints but also varies significantly. This study examines how demographic (sex, age, education) and individual factors shape turn-tak…
Representation of perceived prosodic similarity of conversational feedback
Livia Qian, Carol Figueroa, Gabriel Skantze
Vocal feedback (e.g., `mhm', `yeah', `okay') is an important component of spoken dialogue and is crucial to ensuring common ground in conversational systems. The exact meaning of s…