Evaluating the Effectiveness of Large Language Models in Establishing Conversational Grounding (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | despite its importance, there has been limited research on conversational grounding in recent years . pre-trained language models have been costly and time-consuming to evaluate . |
| Approach: | They evaluate the performance of large language models in various aspects of conversational grounding . they propose ways to enhance the capabilities of the models that lag in this aspect . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performance is based on pre-trained language models and a large pre-training dataset. |
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