3 papers
cs.CL2026
Reference Games as a Testbed for the Alignment of Model Uncertainty and Clarification Requests
Manar Ali, Judith Sieker, Sina Zarrieà +1
In human conversation, both interlocutors play an active role in maintaining mutual understanding. When listeners are uncertain about what speakers mean, for example, they can requ…
cs.CL2025
Dialogue Is Not Enough to Make a Communicative BabyLM (But Neither Is Developmentally Inspired Reinforcement Learning)
Francesca Padovani, Bastian Bunzeck, Manar Ali +4
We investigate whether pre-training exclusively on dialogue data results in formally and functionally apt small language models. Based on this pre-trained llamalogue model, we empl…
cs.CL2025
Are Multimodal Large Language Models Pragmatically Competent Listeners in Simple Reference Resolution Tasks?
Simeon Junker, Manar Ali, Larissa Koch +2
We investigate the linguistic abilities of multimodal large language models in reference resolution tasks featuring simple yet abstract visual stimuli, such as color patches and co…