Search Results for author: Ellen Breitholtz

Found 6 papers, 0 papers with code

Personae under uncertainty: The case of topoi

no code implementations PaM 2020 Bill Noble, Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper

In this paper, we propose a probabilistic model of social signalling which adopts a persona-based account of social meaning.

Distributional properties of political dogwhistle representations in Swedish BERT

no code implementations NAACL (WOAH) 2022 Niclas Hertzberg, Robin Cooper, Elina Lindgren, Björn Rönnerstrand, Gregor Rettenegger, Ellen Breitholtz, Asad Sayeed

“Dogwhistles” are expressions intended by the speaker have two messages: a socially-unacceptable “in-group” message understood by a subset of listeners, and a benign message intended for the out-group.

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Dogwhistles as Inferences in Interaction

no code implementations ReInAct 2021 Ellen Breitholtz, Robin Cooper

In this paper we will argue that the nature of dogwhistle communication is essentially dialogical, and that to account for dogwhistle meaning we must consider dialogical events in which dialogue partners can draw different conclusions based on communicative events.

Why Should I Turn Left? Towards Active Explainability for Spoken Dialogue Systems.

no code implementations ReInAct 2021 Vladislav Maraev, Ellen Breitholtz, Christine Howes, Jean-Philippe Bernardy

In this paper we argue that to make dialogue systems able to actively explain their decisions they can make use of enthymematic reasoning.

Spoken Dialogue Systems

Topic and genre in dialogue

no code implementations6 Dec 2023 Amandine Decker, Ellen Breitholtz, Christine Howes, Staffan Larsson

In this paper we argue that topic plays a fundamental role in conversations, and that the concept is needed in addition to that of genre to define interactions.

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