3 papers
cs.CV2026
Listening with the Eyes: Benchmarking Egocentric Co-Speech Grounding across Space and Time
Weijie Zhou, Xuantang Xiong, Zhenlin Hu +6
In situated collaboration, speakers often use intentionally underspecified deictic commands (e.g., ``pass me \textit{that}''), whose referent becomes identifiable only by aligning…
cs.CL2025
The Structural Sources of Verb Meaning Revisited: Large Language Models Display Syntactic Bootstrapping
Xiaomeng Zhu, R. Thomas McCoy, Robert Frank
Syntactic bootstrapping (Gleitman, 1990) is the hypothesis that children use the syntactic environments in which a verb occurs to learn its meaning. In this paper, we examine wheth…
cs.CL2025
Meaning Beyond Truth Conditions: Evaluating Discourse Level Understanding via Anaphora Accessibility
Xiaomeng Zhu, Zhenghao Zhou, Simon Charlow +1
We present a hierarchy of natural language understanding abilities and argue for the importance of moving beyond assessments of understanding at the lexical and sentence levels to…