4 papers
Resource-Lean Lexicon Induction for German Dialects
Robert Litschko, Barbara Plank, Diego Frassinelli
Automatic induction of high-quality dictionaries is essential for building lexical resources, yet low-resource languages and dialects pose several challenges: limited access to ann…
I Came, I Saw, I Explained: Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs on Figurative Meaning in Memes
Shijia Zhou, Saif M. Mohammad, Barbara Plank +1
Internet memes represent a popular form of multimodal online communication and often use figurative elements to convey layered meaning through the combination of text and images. H…
Controlling Reading Ease with Gaze-Guided Text Generation
Andreas Säuberli, Darja Jepifanova, Diego Frassinelli +1
The way our eyes move while reading can tell us about the cognitive effort required to process the text. In the present study, we use this fact to generate texts with controllable…
Do LLMs Give Psychometrically Plausible Responses in Educational Assessments?
Andreas Säuberli, Diego Frassinelli, Barbara Plank
Knowing how test takers answer items in educational assessments is essential for test development, to evaluate item quality, and to improve test validity. However, this process usu…