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Aligned but Not Partner-Specific: How Multimodal LLM Agents Succeed in Reference Games Without Forming Conceptual Pacts
Po-Ya Angela Wang, Chinmaya Mishra, Aslı Özyürek +2
Repeated reference games test whether interlocutors replace their initially long descriptions with shorter, partner-specific expressions grounded in shared interaction history; tha…
SemConFlow: Semantic Grounding of Holistic Co-Speech Gesture Generation with Contrastive Flow-Matching
Lanmiao Liu, Esam Ghaleb, Aslı Özyürek +1
While the field of co-speech gesture generation has seen significant advances, producing holistic, semantically grounded gestures remains a challenge. Existing approaches rely on e…
The Visual Iconicity Challenge: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Sign Language Form-Meaning Mapping
Onur Keleş, Aslı Özyürek, Gerardo Ortega +2
Iconicity, the resemblance between linguistic form and meaning, is pervasive in signed languages, offering a natural testbed for visual grounding. For vision-language models (VLMs)…
SemGes: Semantics-aware Co-Speech Gesture Generation using Semantic Coherence and Relevance Learning
Lanmiao Liu, Esam Ghaleb, Aslı Özyürek +1
Creating a virtual avatar with semantically coherent gestures that are aligned with speech is a challenging task. Existing gesture generation research mainly focused on generating…
I see what you mean: Co-Speech Gestures for Reference Resolution in Multimodal Dialogue
Esam Ghaleb, Bulat Khaertdinov, Aslı Özyürek +1
In face-to-face interaction, we use multiple modalities, including speech and gestures, to communicate information and resolve references to objects. However, how representational…
Learning Co-Speech Gesture Representations in Dialogue through Contrastive Learning: An Intrinsic Evaluation
Esam Ghaleb, Bulat Khaertdinov, Wim Pouw +4
In face-to-face dialogues, the form-meaning relationship of co-speech gestures varies depending on contextual factors such as what the gestures refer to and the individual characte…
Analysing Cross-Speaker Convergence in Face-to-Face Dialogue through the Lens of Automatically Detected Shared Linguistic Constructions
Esam Ghaleb, Marlou Rasenberg, Wim Pouw +4
Conversation requires a substantial amount of coordination between dialogue participants, from managing turn taking to negotiating mutual understanding. Part of this coordination e…
Leveraging Speech for Gesture Detection in Multimodal Communication
Esam Ghaleb, Ilya Burenko, Marlou Rasenberg +7
Gestures are inherent to human interaction and often complement speech in face-to-face communication, forming a multimodal communication system. An important task in gesture analys…
Co-Speech Gesture Detection through Multi-Phase Sequence Labeling
Esam Ghaleb, Ilya Burenko, Marlou Rasenberg +6
Gestures are integral components of face-to-face communication. They unfold over time, often following predictable movement phases of preparation, stroke, and retraction. Yet, the…