Aron Molnar, Jaap Jumelet, Mario Giulianelli, Arabella J. Sinclair
{"title":"Attribution and Alignment: Effects of Local Context Repetition on Utterance Production and Comprehension in Dialogue","authors":"Aron Molnar, Jaap Jumelet, Mario Giulianelli, Arabella J. Sinclair","doi":"10.48550/arXiv.2311.13061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.13061","url":null,"abstract":"Language models are often used as the backbone of modern dialogue systems. These models are pre-trained on large amounts of written fluent language. Repetition is typically penalised when evaluating language model generations. However, it is a key component of dialogue. Humans use local and partner specific repetitions; these are preferred by human users and lead to more successful communication in dialogue. In this study, we evaluate (a) whether language models produce human-like levels of repetition in dialogue, and (b) what are the processing mechanisms related to lexical re-use they use during comprehension. We believe that such joint analysis of model production and comprehension behaviour can inform the development of cognitively inspired dialogue generation systems.","PeriodicalId":502635,"journal":{"name":"Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning","volume":"84 4","pages":"254-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139252116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}