David Schlangen

The Price of Thought: A Multilingual Analysis of Reasoning, Performance, and Cost of Negotiation in Large Language Models EACL 2026 From Templates to Natural Language: Generalization Challenges in Instruction-Tuned LLMs for Spatial Reasoning IJCNLP 2025 Triangulating LLM Progress through Benchmarks, Games, and Cognitive Tests EMNLP 2025 Playpen: An Environment for Exploring Learning From Dialogue Game Feedback EMNLP 2025 Using Game Play to Investigate Multimodal and Conversational Grounding in Large Multimodal Models COLING 2025 Ad-hoc Concept Forming in the Game Codenames as a Means for Evaluating Large Language Models ACL 2025 LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks ACL 2025 From Templates to Natural Language: Generalization Challenges in Instruction-Tuned LLMs for Spatial Reasoning AACL 2025 Representations of Fact, Fiction and Forecast in Large Language Models: Epistemics and Attitudes ACL 2025 When Only Time Will Tell: Interpreting How Transformers Process Local Ambiguities Through the Lens of Restart-Incrementality ACL 2024 Learning Communication Policies for Different Follower Behaviors in a Collaborative Reference Game ACL 2024 Conceptual Pacts for Reference Resolution Using Small, Dynamically Constructed Language Models: A Study in Puzzle Building Dialogues COLING 2024 Sharing the Cost of Success: A Game for Evaluating and Learning Collaborative Multi-Agent Instruction Giving and Following Policies COLING 2024 Evaluating Modular Dialogue System for Form Filling Using Large Language Models EACL 2024 Taking Action Towards Graceful Interaction: The Effects of Performing Actions on Modelling Policies for Instruction Clarification Requests EACL 2024 Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation for Situated Action Generation: A Case Study on Minecraft EMNLP 2024 Pento-DIARef: A Diagnostic Dataset for Learning the Incremental Algorithm for Referring Expression Generation from Examples EACL 2023 Images in Language Space: Exploring the Suitability of Large Language Models for Vision & Language Tasks ACL 2023 Yes, this Way! Learning to Ground Referring Expressions into Actions with Intra-episodic Feedback from Supportive Teachers ACL 2023 TAPIR: Learning Adaptive Revision for Incremental Natural Language Understanding with a Two-Pass Model ACL 2023 clembench: Using Game Play to Evaluate Chat-Optimized Language Models as Conversational Agents EMNLP 2023 Revising with a Backward Glance: Regressions and Skips during Reading as Cognitive Signals for Revision Policies in Incremental Processing CONLL 2023 Instruction Clarification Requests in Multimodal Collaborative Dialogue Games: Tasks, and an Analysis of the CoDraw Dataset EACL 2023 Revising with a Backward Glance: Regressions and Skips during Reading as Cognitive Signals for Revision Policies in Incremental Processing EMNLP 2023 On General Language Understanding EMNLP 2023 Can Visual Dialogue Models Do Scorekeeping? Exploring How Dialogue Representations Incrementally Encode Shared Knowledge ACL 2022 New or Old? Exploring How Pre-Trained Language Models Represent Discourse Entities COLING 2022 Anaphoric Phenomena in Situated dialog: A First Round of Annotations COLING 2022 Space Efficient Context Encoding for Non-Task-Oriented Dialogue Generation with Graph Attention Transformer IJCNLP 2021 Is Incoherence Surprising? Targeted Evaluation of Coherence Prediction from Language Models NAACL 2021 Reference and coreference in situated dialogue NAACL 2021 Towards Incremental Transformers: An Empirical Analysis of Transformer Models for Incremental NLU EMNLP 2021 Space Efficient Context Encoding for Non-Task-Oriented Dialogue Generation with Graph Attention Transformer ACL 2021 Targeting the Benchmark: On Methodology in Current Natural Language Processing Research IJCNLP 2021 Targeting the Benchmark: On Methodology in Current Natural Language Processing Research ACL 2021 Incremental Processing in the Age of Non-Incremental Encoders: An Empirical Assessment of Bidirectional Models for Incremental NLU EMNLP 2020 Know What You Don’t Know: Modeling a Pragmatic Speaker that Refers to Objects of Unknown Categories ACL 2019 Deriving continous grounded meaning representations from referentially structured multimodal contexts EMNLP 2017 Obtaining referential word meanings from visual and distributional information: Experiments on object naming ACL 2017 Is this a Child, a Girl or a Car? Exploring the Contribution of Distributional Similarity to Learning Referential Word Meanings EACL 2017 Grounding Language by Continuous Observation of Instruction Following EACL 2017 Towards Deep End-of-Turn Prediction for Situated Spoken Dialogue Systems INTERSPEECH 2017 Joint, Incremental Disfluency Detection and Utterance Segmentation from Speech EACL 2017 Natural Language Informs the Interpretation of Iconic Gestures: A Computational Approach IJCNLP 2017 Draw and Tell: Multimodal Descriptions Outperform Verbal- or Sketch-Only Descriptions in an Image Retrieval Task IJCNLP 2017 Resolving References to Objects in Photographs using the Words-As-Classifiers Model ACL 2016 Easy Things First: Installments Improve Referring Expression Generation for Objects in Photographs ACL 2016 Simple Learning and Compositional Application of Perceptually Grounded Word Meanings for Incremental Reference Resolution ACL 2015 Incrementally Tracking Reference in Human/Human Dialogue Using Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Information NAACL 2015 Simple Learning and Compositional Application of Perceptually Grounded Word Meanings for Incremental Reference Resolution IJCNLP 2015 Situated Incremental Natural Language Understanding using a Multimodal, Linguistically-driven Update Model COLING 2014 INPRO_iSS: A Component for Just-In-Time Incremental Speech Synthesis ACL 2012 The InproTK 2012 release NAACL 2012 The Future of Spoken Dialogue Systems is in their Past: Long-Term Adaptive, Conversational Assistants NAACL 2012 Joint Satisfaction of Syntactic and Pragmatic Constraints Improves Incremental Spoken Language Understanding EACL 2012 A General, Abstract Model of Incremental Dialogue Processing EACL 2009 Assessing and Improving the Performance of Speech Recognition for Incremental Systems NAACL 2009 Incremental Dialogue Processing in a Micro-Domain EACL 2009 Towards Incremental End-of-Utterance Detection in Dialogue Systems COLING 2008 Towards Finding and Fixing Fragments—Using ML to Identify Non-Sentential Utterances and their Antecedents in Multi-Party Dialogue ACL 2005