10 papers
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…
Investigating the Representation of Backchannels and Fillers in Fine-tuned Language Models
Yu Wang, Leyi Lao, Langchu Huang +3
Backchannels and fillers are important linguistic expressions in dialogue, but often treated as 'noise' to be bypassed in modern transformer-based language models (LMs). Here, we s…
Identifying the Periodicity of Information in Natural Language
Yulin Ou, Yu Wang, Yang Xu +1
Recent theoretical advancement of information density in natural language has brought the following question on desk: To what degree does natural language exhibit periodicity patte…
Predicting States of Understanding in Explanatory Interactions Using Cognitive Load-Related Linguistic Cues
Yu Wang, Olcay Türk, Angela Grimminger +1
We investigate how verbal and nonverbal linguistic features, exhibited by speakers and listeners in dialogue, can contribute to predicting the listener's state of understanding in…
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…
Forms of Understanding for XAI-Explanations
Hendrik Buschmeier, Heike M. Buhl, Friederike Kern +17
Explainability has become an important topic in computer science and artificial intelligence, leading to a subfield called Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). The goal of pr…