Papers by Bram van Dijk
Theory of Mind in Freely-Told Children’s Narratives: A Classification Approach (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Language and Theory of Mind (ToM) competences are often studied with younger children and standardized tests, but as both are social competences, data and methods with higher ecological validity are critical. |
| Approach: | They leveraged a corpus of 442 freely-told stories by Dutch children aged 4-12 to study language and ToM with NLP-tools. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is robust relative to the complexity of the task for humans and is consistent with previous studies. |
Large Language Models: The Need for Nuance in Current Debates and a Pragmatic Perspective on Understanding (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Current Large Language Models (LLMs) are unparalleled in their ability to generate grammatically correct, fluent text. |
| Approach: | They argue that LLMs only parrot statistical patterns in training data and that language learning in LLM cannot inform human language learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can generate grammatically correct, fluent text without requiring human intervention. |