4 papers
Zero-Shot Belief: A Hard Problem for LLMs
John Murzaku, Owen Rambow
We present two LLM-based approaches to zero-shot source-and-target belief prediction on FactBank: a unified system that identifies events, sources, and belief labels in a single pa…
Synthetic Audio Helps for Cognitive State Tasks
Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, Peter Zeng +1
The NLP community has broadly focused on text-only approaches of cognitive state tasks, but audio can provide vital missing cues through prosody. We posit that text-to-speech model…
Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Spontaneous Narratives
Amie J. Paige, Adil Soubki, John Murzaku +2
Hedges allow speakers to mark utterances as provisional, whether to signal non-prototypicality or "fuzziness", to indicate a lack of commitment to an utterance, to attribute respon…
Multimodal Belief Prediction
John Murzaku, Adil Soubki, Owen Rambow
Recognizing a speaker's level of commitment to a belief is a difficult task; humans do not only interpret the meaning of the words in context, but also understand cues from intonat…