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.
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.
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.
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.
no code implementations • 6 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.