5 papers
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…
Thinking Out Loud: Do Reasoning Models Know When They're Right?
Qingcheng Zeng, Weihao Xuan, Leyang Cui +1
Large reasoning models (LRMs) have recently demonstrated impressive capabilities in complex reasoning tasks by leveraging increased test-time computation and exhibiting behaviors r…
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…
Sympathy over Polarization: A Computational Discourse Analysis of Social Media Posts about the July 2024 Trump Assassination Attempt
Qingcheng Zeng, Guanhong Liu, Zhaoqian Xue +4
On July 13, 2024, at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, someone attempted to assassinate Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump. This attempt sparked a large-scale discussion…
Causal Micro-Narratives
Mourad Heddaya, Qingcheng Zeng, Chenhao Tan +2
We present a novel approach to classify causal micro-narratives from text. These narratives are sentence-level explanations of the cause(s) and/or effect(s) of a target subject. Th…