Papers by Patrick Blackburn
A recipe for annotating grounded clarifications (2021.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | In order to interpret communicative intents of an utterance, it needs to be grounded in world modalities. |
| Approach: | They propose a recipe for obtaining grounding annotations for dialogue clarification mechanisms that make explicit the process of interpreting communicative intents of an utterance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method is based on the definitions of perceptual and collaborative grounding and on the classification of clarification phenomena. |
Ethics consideration sections in natural language processing papers (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a manual classification of ethics sections for ACL 2021 is presented . authors will be allowed extra space after the 8th page for a broader impact statement . |
| Approach: | They propose a manual classification of all ethical consideration sections for ACL 2021 . they also compare how many papers had an ethics consideration section per track . |
| Outcome: | The paper compares the number of papers with an ethics consideration section in ACL 2021 . it also examines obstacles to the discussion of ethical consideration sections . |
Grounding as a Collaborative Process (2021.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | a new study shows that dialog requires a collaborative grounding approach to ground meaning . the problem is that dialog partners are not able to ground themselves . |
| Approach: | They argue that it is missing from current deep learning approaches to dialog . they argue that making mistakes and being able to recover from them is key . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on the language acquisition and dialog systems literature . it shows that making mistakes and being able to recover from them is key . |