Do dialogue representations align with perception? An empirical study (2023.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | masked language models produce stronger correlations than auto-regressive models, but humans and models make different response selection mistakes. |
| Approach: | They propose to use spoken conversation as a model to measure human comprehension behaviour. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the model which produces the strongest correlation with human responses. |
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