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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…
Revisiting the Phenomenon of Syntactic Complexity Convergence on German Dialogue Data
Yu Wang, Hendrik Buschmeier
We revisit the phenomenon of syntactic complexity convergence in conversational interaction, originally found for English dialogue, which has theoretical implication for dialogical…