Individualized Interaction in Discourse

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

Connective Comprehension in Adults: The Influence of Lexical Transparency, Frequency, and Individual Differences

Author(s): Merel Scholman, Marian Marchal, Vera Demberg
Published in: Discourse Processes, Issue 61, 2024, Page(s) 381-403, ISSN 0163-853X
Publisher: Ablex Pub. Corp
DOI: 10.1080/0163853x.2024.2325262

Metaphors in context and in isolation: Familiarity, aptness, concreteness, metaphoricity, and structure norms for 300 two-word expressions

Author(s): Laura Pissani, Roberto G. de Almeida
Published in: Behavior Research Methods, Issue 58, 2026, ISSN 1554-3528
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-025-02902-0

Sources of individual variability in a pragmatic reference game: Effects of logical reasoning and Theory of Mind

Author(s): Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg
Published in: PLOS One, Issue 21, 2026, Page(s) e0339899, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0339899

Integrating language model embeddings into the ACT-R cognitive modeling framework

Author(s): Maryam Meghdadi, John Duff, Vera Demberg
Published in: Frontiers in Language Sciences, Issue 5, 2026, ISSN 2813-4605
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/flang.2026.1721326

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 Volume 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

Robustness of large language models in moral judgements

Author(s): Soyoung Oh, Vera Demberg
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.241229

Beliefs about the speaker's reasoning ability influence pragmatic interpretation: Children and adults as speakers

Author(s): Alexandra Mayn, J E Loy, Vera Demberg
Published in: Open Mind, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) 89–120, ISSN 2470-2986
Publisher: MIT Press direct
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/n3v69

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

Explanatory Summarization with Discourse-Driven Planning

Author(s): Dongqi Liu, Xi Yu, Vera Demberg, Mirella Lapata
Published in: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025, ISSN 2307-387X
Publisher: MIT Press Direct

Incorporating Distributions of Discourse Structure for Long DocumentAbstractive Summarization

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

RST-LoRA: A Discourse-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation for Long Document Abstractive Summarization

Author(s): Dongqi Pu, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024, Page(s) 2200-2220
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-long.121

SciNews: From Scholarly Complexities to Public Narratives – a Dataset for Scientific News Report Generation

Author(s): Dongqi Liu, Yifan Wang, Jia Loy, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 2024, Page(s) 14429–14444
Publisher: ELRA and ICCL

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

An ACT-R model of resource-rational performance in a pragmatic reference game

Author(s): John Duff, Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

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

Music-induced Positive Mood Stimulates Metaphor Production

Author(s): Laura Pissani, Meiser, M., & Demberg, V.
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

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.)

SIGA: A Naturalistic NLI Dataset of English Scalar Implicatures with Gradable Adjectives

Author(s): Rashid Nizamani, Sebastian Schuster, Vera Demberg
Published in: 2024, Page(s) 14784–14795
Publisher: ELRA and ICCL

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

Unstructured Minds, Predictable Machines: A Comparative Study of Narrative Cohesion in Human and LLM Stream-of-Consciousness Writing

Author(s): Nellia Dzhubaeva, Katharina Trinley, Laura Pissani
Published in: Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop), 2025, Page(s) 1079-1096
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-srw.85

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

Tug-of-war between idioms’ figurative and literal interpretations in LLMs

Author(s): Soyoung Oh, Xinting Huang, Mathis Pink, Michael Hahn, and Vera Demberg
Published in: The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026), 2026
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

What Is That Talk About? A Video-to-Text Summarization Dataset for Scientific Presentations

Author(s): Dongqi Liu, Chenxi Whitehouse, Xi Yu, Louis Mahon, Rohit Saxena, Zheng Zhao, Yifu Qiu, Mirella Lapata, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025, Page(s) 6187-6210
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.310

Adaptation to Speakers is modulated by working memory updating and theory of mind -- a study investigating humor comprehension

Author(s): Jia Loy, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue Vol 46, 2024
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

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

Author(s): Dongqi Liu, Xudong Hong, Pin-Jie Lin, Ernie Chang, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the COLING Workshop on Automatic Summarization for Creative Writing, 2022, Page(s) 57–66
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

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.)

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, Page(s) 3835-3855
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.213

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.)

SpreadNaLa: A Naturalistic Code Generation Evaluation Dataset of Spreadsheet Formulas

Author(s): Sebastian Schuster, Ayesha Ansar, Om Agarwal, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 2024, Page(s) 15216–15225
Publisher: ELRA and ICCL

People do not engage in ad-hoc reasoning about alternative messages when interacting with a literal speaker

Author(s): Mayn, Alexandra;Duff, John;Bila, Natalia;Demberg, Vera
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue Volume 47, 2025
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

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

Capable but not cooperative? Perceptions of ChatGPT as a pragmatic speaker

Author(s): Alexandra Mayn, Jia Loy, Vera Demberg
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Issue Vol 46, 2024
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

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): Dongqi Liu, 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

The Dynamics of Pragmatics: Individual Differences and Adaptation in Pragmatic Processing

Author(s): Alexandra Mayn
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Saarland University

Discourse-Grounded Text Generation

Author(s): Dongqi Liu
Published in: 2026
Publisher: Saarland University

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