For this week’s group colloquium, we invited Loulou Kosmala from Paris-Est Créteil University. She gave a talk on multimodal feedback during all types of conversation, from real life to virtual, from learners to adults, from L1 to L2, and more! 🤩

Happening now: Sina‘s keynote on our BabyLM work. 🥳

Final Keynote of #semdial by David Schlangen on ”Meaningful Interaction with Unreal Speakers?“ 😇💬

Second #semdial keynote by Robert Hawkins on ”Foraging for common ground“

Day 2 of #semdial starts with a session on LMs and dialogue systems 🤩

Actually yes! Dialogue differs distinctly from monologues in terms of phonetic features and in the production of novel phonetic forms!

Leonie Schade asks whether it takes two to do an articulatory tango 😁

#semdial2025, the long-awaited #bialogue conference starts tomorrow! We are looking forward to three wonderful conference days, featuring three exciting keynotes, and many oral and poster presentations on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. 👄💬
Check out the program and proceedings below. 👇

Let’s go!

Impromptu dinner after @conll-conf.bsky.social #ACL2025NLP, connecting Bielefeld and the Netherlands over Greek food 😇👌

Happening now: catch Simeon, Manar and Larissa presenting their paper -Are Multimodal Large Language Models Pragmatically Competent Listeners in Simple Reference Resolution Tasks?- in hall X5. #ACL2025NLP

Happening now — Clara, Judith and Sina present their poster:
Can LLMs Ground when they (Don’t) Know: A Study on Direct and Loaded Political Questions
(Poster board 45) #ACL2025NLP

The CLAUSE group from Bielefeld University is looking forward to next month‘s ACL in Vienna, where we will be presenting quite a few papers. 🥳
Feel free to get in touch if you want to know more. 😇

Lola from our sister lab, the Digital Linguistics lab, is handing in her thesis today. We are so proud of what she has achieved in the last three years! 🤖💬💁‍♀️

Poster time! Catch Judith and Simeon presenting “The Illusion of Competence: Evaluating the Effect of Explanations on
Users' Mental Models of Visual Question Answering Systems” in the downstairs poster room at @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social #emnlp2024

Check out our PI Prof. Sina Zarrieß presenting “Evaluating Diversity in Automatic Poetry Generation” at the #emnlp2024 poster session right now!