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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…
Examining Gender and Power on Wikipedia Through Face and Politeness
Adil Soubki, Shyne Choi, Owen Rambow
We propose a framework for analyzing discourse by combining two interdependent concepts from sociolinguistic theory: face acts and politeness. While politeness has robust existing…
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…
Intention and Face in Dialog
Adil Soubki, Owen Rambow
The notion of face described by Brown and Levinson (1987) has been studied in great detail, but a critical aspect of the framework, that which focuses on how intentions mediate the…
Views Are My Own, but Also Yours: Benchmarking Theory of Mind Using Common Ground
Adil Soubki, John Murzaku, Arash Yousefi Jordehi +4
Evaluating the theory of mind (ToM) capabilities of language models (LMs) has recently received a great deal of attention. However, many existing benchmarks rely on synthetic data,…
Finding Common Ground: Annotating and Predicting Common Ground in Spoken Conversations
Magdalena Markowska, Mohammad Taghizadeh, Adil Soubki +2
When we communicate with other humans, we do not simply generate a sequence of words. Rather, we use our cognitive state (beliefs, desires, intentions) and our model of the audienc…