4 papers
Sycophancy Undermines Epistemic Vigilance in Cooperative Vision-Language Tasks
Rupak Sarkar, Neha Srikanth, Saloni Gupta +3
To maintain common ground in cooperative conversation, humans iteratively update their beliefs as conversation participants share new information; participants who are epistemicall…
DiscoTrace: Representing and Comparing Answering Strategies of Humans and LLMs in Information-Seeking Question Answering
Neha Srikanth, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Rachel Rudinger
We introduce DiscoTrace, a method to identify the rhetorical strategies that answerers use when responding to information-seeking questions. DiscoTrace represents answers as a sequ…
Understanding Common Ground Misalignment in Goal-Oriented Dialog: A Case-Study with Ubuntu Chat Logs
Rupak Sarkar, Neha Srikanth, Taylor Hudson +3
While it is commonly accepted that maintaining common ground plays a role in conversational success, little prior research exists connecting conversational grounding to success in…
NLI under the Microscope: What Atomic Hypothesis Decomposition Reveals
Neha Srikanth, Rachel Rudinger
Decomposition of text into atomic propositions is a flexible framework allowing for the closer inspection of input and output text. We use atomic decomposition of hypotheses in two…