2 papers
cs.CL2026
The Pragmatic Mind of Machines: Tracing the Emergence of Pragmatic Competence in Large Language Models
Kefan Yu, Qingcheng Zeng, Weihao Xuan +3
Current large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated emerging capabilities in social intelligence tasks, including implicature resolution and theory-of-mind reasoning, both of wh…
cs.CL2025
Leveraging Human Production-Interpretation Asymmetries to Test LLM Cognitive Plausibility
Suet-Ying Lam, Qingcheng Zeng, Jingyi Wu +1
Whether large language models (LLMs) process language similarly to humans has been the subject of much theoretical and practical debate. We examine this question through the lens o…