Individualized Interaction in Discourse

Project Information

IDDISC

Grant agreement ID: 948878

DOI 10.3030/948878

EC signature date 18 December 2020

Start date 1 February 2021

End date 31 January 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 496 875,00

EU contribution € 1 496 875,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES
Germany

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

The effect of domain knowledge on discourse relation inferences:Relation marking and interpretation strategies

Author(s): Marian Marchal, Merel C. J. Scholman, Vera Demberg
Published in: Dialogue and Discourse, Issue 13(2), 2022, Page(s) 49-78, ISSN 2152-9620
Publisher: --
DOI: 10.5210/dad.2022.202

A systematic evaluation of factors affecting referring expression choice in passage completion tasks

Author(s): Vera Demberg; Ekaterina Kravtchenko; Jia E. Loy
Published in: Journal of Memory and Language, Issue Vol 130, 2023, ISSN 0749-596X
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2023.104413

High Performance on a Pragmatic Task May Not Be the Result of Successful Reasoning: On the Importance of Eliciting Participants’ Reasoning Strategies

Author(s): Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg
Published in: Open Mind, Issue Vol 7, 2023, Page(s) 156-178, ISSN 2470-2986
Publisher: MIT Press Direct
DOI: 10.1162/opmi_a_00077

Individual Differences in Spatial Orientation Modulate Perspective Taking in Listeners

Author(s): Jia Loy, Vera Demberg
Published in: Journal of Cognition, Issue Volume 6, 2023, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 2514-4820
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/joc.321

Perspective Taking Reflects Beliefs About Partner Sophistication: Modern Computer Partners Versus BasicComputer and Human Partners

Author(s): Jia Loy, Vera Demberg
Published in: Cognitive Science, Issue Volume 47, 2023, ISSN 0364-0213
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13385

Expectations over Unspoken Alternatives Predict Pragmatic Inferences

Author(s): Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy, Judith Degen, Sebastian Schuster
Published in: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023, ISSN 2307-387X
Publisher: MIT Press Direct
DOI: 10.1162/tacl_a_00579

Conference proceedings (15)

Incorporating Distributions of Discourse Structure for Long DocumentAbstractive Summarization

Author(s): Dongqi Pu, Yifan Wang, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Volume 1: Long Papers, 2023, Page(s) 5574–5590
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

What inferences do people actually make upon encountering informationally redundant utterances? An individual differences study

Author(s): Margarita Ryzhova, Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive ScienceSociety, 2023
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

Partner effects and individual differences on perspective taking

Author(s): Jia Loy, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue Volume 44, 2022, Page(s) 86-92
Publisher: J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.)

Entity Tracking in Language Models

Author(s): Najoung Kim, Sebastian Schuster
Published in: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Volume 1: Long Papers, 2023
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Pragmatic comprehension in individuals is stable across time and some tasks

Author(s): Margarita Ryzhova, Jia Loy, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the 9th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, 2022
Publisher: XPrag IT

Modeling atypicality inferences in pragmatic reasoning

Author(s): Ekaterina Kravtchenko, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue Volume 44, 2022
Publisher: J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.)

Working memory updating modulates adaptation to speaker-specific use of uncertainty expressions.

Author(s): Sebastian Schuster, Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2023), 2023, Page(s) 1213-1220
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

Right for the Wrong Reason? On the importance of eliciting participants' reasoning

Author(s): Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the 9th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, 2022
Publisher: XPRAG.it

Label distributions help implicit discourse relation classification

Author(s): Frances Yung, Kaveri Anuranjana, Merel Scholman, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, 2022
Publisher: COLING

Two-stage movie scripts summarization: an efficient method for low-resource long documents summarization

Author(s): Dongqi Pu, Xudong Hong, Pin-Jie Lin, Ernie Chang, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the COLING Workshop on Automatic Summarization for Creative Writing, 2022
Publisher: COLING

Pragmatics of Metaphor Revisited: Modeling the Role of Degree and Salience in Metaphor Understanding

Author(s): Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue Volume 44, 2022, Page(s) 3154-3160
Publisher: J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.)

Individual Differences in a Pragmatic Reference Game

Author(s): Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society., Issue Volume 44, 2022, Page(s) 3016-3022
Publisher: J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.)

Modeling Overspecification as Uncertainty About Feature Uniqueness

Author(s): Alexandra Mayn, Jia Loy, Vera Demberg
Published in: Workshop on procedural and computational models of semantic and pragmatic processes, 2023
Publisher: workshop abstracts

Establishing annotation quality in multi-label annotations

Author(s): Marian Marchal, Merel Scholman, Frances Yung, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the 29th international conference on computational linguistics, 2022
Publisher: COLING 2022

ChatGPT vs Human-authored Text: Insights into Controllable TextSummarization and Sentence Style Transfer

Author(s): Donqi Pu, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Student Research Workshop, 2023, Page(s) 1-18
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics