3 papers
cs.CL2025
Are BabyLMs Deaf to Gricean Maxims? A Pragmatic Evaluation of Sample-efficient Language Models
Raha Askari, Sina Zarrieß, Özge Alacam +1
Implicit meanings are integral to human communication, making it essential for language models to be capable of identifying and interpreting them. Grice (1975) proposed a set of co…
cs.CL2025
Can LLMs Ground when they (Don't) Know: A Study on Direct and Loaded Political Questions
Clara Lachenmaier, Judith Sieker, Sina Zarrieß
Communication among humans relies on conversational grounding, allowing interlocutors to reach mutual understanding even when they do not have perfect knowledge and must resolve di…
cs.CL2024
Towards an Analysis of Discourse and Interactional Pragmatic Reasoning Capabilities of Large Language Models
Amelie Robrecht, Judith Sieker, Clara Lachenmaier +2
In this work, we want to give an overview on which pragmatic abilities have been tested in LLMs so far and how these tests have been carried out. To do this, we first discuss the s…