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Child-directed speech facilitates production, not comprehension, in BabyLMs CoNLL 2026 SemCSE-Multi: Multifaceted and Decodable Embeddings for Aspect-Specific and Interpretable Scientific Domain Mapping ACL 2026 Surprisal and Metaphor Novelty Judgments: Moderate Correlations and Divergent Scaling Effects Revealed by Corpus-Based and Synthetic Datasets EACL 2026 Talking to a Know-It-All GPT or a Second-Guesser Claude? How Repair reveals distinct Multi-Turn Behavior in LLMs ACL 2026 Annotating Spatial Descriptions in Literary and Non-Literary Text ACL 2025 Are BabyLMs Deaf to Gricean Maxims? A Pragmatic Evaluation of Sample-efficient Language Models EMNLP 2025 Are Multimodal Large Language Models Pragmatically Competent Listeners in Simple Reference Resolution Tasks? ACL 2025 Can LLMs Ground when they (Don’t) Know: A Study on Direct and Loaded Political Questions ACL 2025 Components of Creativity: Language Model-based Predictors for Clustering and Switching in Verbal Fluency CoNLL 2025 Dialogue Is Not Enough to Make a Communicative BabyLM (But Neither Is Developmentally Inspired Reinforcement Learning) EMNLP 2025 Disentangling Subjectivity and Uncertainty for Hate Speech Annotation and Modeling using Gaze EMNLP 2025 Do Construction Distributions Shape Formal Language Learning In German BabyLMs? CoNLL 2025 Enhancing Domain-Specific Encoder Models with LLM-Generated Data: How to Leverage Ontologies, and How to Do Without Them EMNLP 2025 SceneGram: Conceptualizing and Describing Tangrams in Scene Context ACL 2025 SemCSE: Semantic Contrastive Sentence Embeddings Using LLM-Generated Summaries For Scientific Abstracts EMNLP 2025 Small Language Models Also Work With Small Vocabularies: Probing the Linguistic Abilities of Grapheme- and Phoneme-Based Baby Llamas COLING 2025 Subword models struggle with word learning, but surprisal hides it ACL 2025 Using LLMs and Preference Optimization for Agreement-Aware HateWiC Classification ACL 2025 Conceptual Pacts for Reference Resolution Using Small, Dynamically Constructed Language Models: A Study in Puzzle Building Dialogues COLING 2024 Evaluating Diversity in Automatic Poetry Generation EMNLP 2024 Eyes Don’t Lie: Subjective Hate Annotation and Detection with Gaze EMNLP 2024 Graphemes vs. phonemes: battling it out in character-based language models CoNLL 2024 Hateful Word in Context Classification EMNLP 2024 Plots Made Quickly: An Efficient Approach for Generating Visualizations from Natural Language Queries COLING 2024 Rationalizing Transformer Predictions via End-To-End Differentiable Self-Training EMNLP 2024 The Illusion of Competence: Evaluating the Effect of Explanations on Users’ Mental Models of Visual Question Answering Systems EMNLP 2024 The SlayQA benchmark of social reasoning: testing gender-inclusive generalization with neopronouns EMNLP 2024 WikiScenes with Descriptions: Aligning Paragraphs and Sentences with Images in Wikipedia Articles NAACL 2024 GPT-wee: How Small Can a Small Language Model Really Get? CoNLL 2023 Identifying Slurs and Lexical Hate Speech via Light-Weight Dimension Projection in Embedding Space ACL 2023 Model Interpretability and Rationale Extraction by Input Mask Optimization ACL 2023 Paparazzi: A Deep Dive into the Capabilities of Language and Vision Models for Grounding Viewpoint Descriptions EACL 2023 Towards Detecting Lexical Change of Hate Speech in Historical Data EMNLP 2023 VIST5: An Adaptive, Retrieval-Augmented Language Model for Visualization-oriented Dialog EMNLP 2023 When Your Language Model Cannot Even Do Determiners Right: Probing for Anti-Presuppositions and the Maximize Presupposition! Principle EMNLP 2023 Exploring Semantic Spaces for Detecting Clustering and Switching in Verbal Fluency COLING 2022 KeywordScape: Visual Document Exploration using Contextualized Keyword Embeddings EMNLP 2022 Leveraging the Wikipedia Graph for Evaluating Word Embeddings IJCAI 2022 Modeling Referential Gaze in Task-oriented Settings of Varying Referential Complexity AACL 2022 The Why and The How: A Survey on Natural Language Interaction in Visualization NAACL 2022 Challenges in Designing Natural Language Interfaces for Complex Visual Models EACL 2021 Effects of Time Pressure and Spontaneity on Phonotactic Innovations in German Dialogues Interspeech 2021 Method of Moments for Topic Models with Mixed Discrete and Continuous Features IJCAI 2021 What Did This Castle Look like before? Exploring Referential Relations in Naturally Occurring Multimodal Texts EACL 2021 Humans Meet Models on Object Naming: A New Dataset and Analysis COLING 2020 Knowledge Supports Visual Language Grounding: A Case Study on Colour Terms ACL 2020 Do Hesitations Facilitate Processing of Partially Defective System Utterances? An Exploratory Eye Tracking Study Interspeech 2019 Know What You Don’t Know: Modeling a Pragmatic Speaker that Refers to Objects of Unknown Categories ACL 2019 The Greennn Tree — Lengthening Position Influences Uncertainty Perception Interspeech 2019 Deriving continous grounded meaning representations from referentially structured multimodal contexts EMNLP 2017 Increasing Recall of Lengthening Detection via Semi-Automatic Classification Interspeech 2017 Is this a Child, a Girl or a Car? Exploring the Contribution of Distributional Similarity to Learning Referential Word Meanings EACL 2017 Obtaining referential word meanings from visual and distributional information: Experiments on object naming ACL 2017 Easy Things First: Installments Improve Referring Expression Generation for Objects in Photographs ACL 2016 Resolving References to Objects in Photographs using the Words-As-Classifiers Model ACL 2016 Combining Referring Expression Generation and Surface Realization: A Corpus-Based Investigation of Architectures ACL 2013 LFG-based Features for Noun Number and Article Grammatical Errors CoNLL 2013 To what extent does sentence-internal realisation reflect discourse context? A study on word order EACL 2012 Underspecifying and Predicting Voice for Surface Realisation Ranking ACL 2011 Cross-Lingual Induction for Deep Broad-Coverage Syntax: A Case Study on German Participles COLING 2010