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Vera Demberg
cs.CLcs.AIcs.LGPsycholinguistics and Neurolinguisticscs.CVcs.HCLanguageSemantics and Pragmaticsagingbackground noise
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published · living versionsW_rmu939e8·v1 · currentpublished
Must AI Spell It Out? Pragmatic Comprehension of Alerts in a Time-Critical Task
with Anwesha Das, Anna Maria Feit
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Preprints & journals
87 papers in the corpus · 2008–2026Learning Perception to Action Rules through Reinforcement Learning for Theory-of-Mind Reasoning2610.19796v1 · Soyoung Oh, Nursulu Sagimbayeva, Nicholas Jennings et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Working memory and vocabulary knowledge sustain activation of the literal meaning of metaphors during sentence comprehension.42809199 · Pissani, Laura, Scholman, Merel C J, Demberg, Vera2026 · 0 citationsMemory & cognition. 2026
Do Motion Tokenizers for Co-Speech Gesture Generation Encode Gesture Semantics?2610.03765v1 · Varsha Suresh, Divij Jain, Jia Liu et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Bidirectional effects of speech and gesture: evidence from a novel levels-of-congruence paradigm.42687966 · Pissani, Laura, Demberg, Vera2026 · 0 citationsFrontiers in psychology. 2026;17:1851588
Beyond Routing Weights: Faithful Response-Level Interpretation of Mixture-of-Experts Reward Models via Contribution Contrast2608.06400v1 · Yifan Wang, Jinyi Mu, Mayank Jobanputra et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
A retrieval conditioned rebinding circuit for dynamic entity tracking in large language models2606.08644v2 · Soyoung Oh, Vera Demberg2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Fixation-related potentials reveal that confusing program code elicits a late frontal positivity.42225689 · Bergum, Annabelle, Maurer, Anna-Maria, Peitek, Norman et al.2026 · 1 citationScientific reports. 2026;16(1)
Learning to Reason About Implicit Multimodal Harm: From Diagnosis to Generalization2605.29951v2 · Anisha Saha, Varsha Suresh, Teodora Kamova et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Semantic Motion Anchors: Bridging Motion and Meaning in Co-Speech Gestures2605.30608v3 · Varsha Suresh, Mohammad Mahdi Abootorabi, Mohamed Salman et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Modeling Working Memory Capacity in Sentence Processing with Lossy-Context Surprisalu5tf2_v1 · Jiaxin Li, Michael Hahn, Vera Demberg2026 · 0 citationsPsyArXiv
Speech Cues Influence the Interpretation of Metaphoric Gesturespqk3d_v2 · Laura Pissani, Vera Demberg2026 · 0 citationsPsyArXiv
Is Cross-Lingual Transfer in Bilingual Models Human-Like? A Study with Overlapping Word Forms in Dutch and English2604.07067v1 · Iza Skrjanec, Irene Elisabeth Winther, Vera Demberg et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
The Role of Reinforcement Learning in Pragmatic Reasoning Tasks: Modeling and Validating the Sources of Individual Differences.41953132 · Duff, John, Mayn, Alexandra, Demberg, Vera2026 · 0 citationsOpen mind : discoveries in cognitive science. 2026;10:336-390
MIBURI: Towards Expressive Interactive Gesture Synthesis2603.03282v2 · M. Hamza Mughal, Rishabh Dabral, Vera Demberg et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Human Label Variation in Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition2602.22723v1 · Frances Yung, Daniil Ignatev, Merel Scholman et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Listeners Adapt Dynamically to Speakers' Pragmatic Competencejce38_v1 · Kata Naszadi, Alexandra Mayn, John Duff et al.2026 · 0 citationsPsyArXiv
Referring Effectively to a Group of Objectsnbqsz_v2 · Emilia Ellsiepen, Alexandra Mayn, Nataliia Bila et al.2026 · 0 citationsPsyArXiv
Generation-Step-Aware Framework for Cross-Modal Representation and Control in Multilingual Speech-Text Models2601.17387v3 · Toshiki Nakai, Varsha Suresh, Vera Demberg2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
How AI Responses Shape User Beliefs: The Effects of Information Detail and Confidence on Belief Strength and Stance2511.09667v1 · Zekun Wu, Mayank Jobanputra, Vera Demberg et al.2025 · 2 citationsarXiv
Sources of individual variability in a pragmatic reference game: Effects of reasoning and Theory of Mind3kefd_v1 · Alexandra Mayn, Vera Demberg2025 · 0 citationsPsyArXiv
Born a Transformer -- Always a Transformer? On the Effect of Pretraining on Architectural Abilities2505.21785v3 · Mayank Jobanputra, Yana Veitsman, Yash Sarrof et al.2025 · 0 citationsarXiv
Explanatory Summarization with Discourse-Driven Planning2504.19339v3 · Dongqi Liu, Xi Yu, Vera Demberg et al.2025 · 2 citationsDongqi Liu, Xi Yu, Vera Demberg, Mirella Lapata; Explanatory Summarization with Discourse-Driven Planning. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025
Robustness of large language models in moral judgements.40271133 · Oh, Soyoung, Demberg, Vera2026 · 12 citationsRoyal Society open science. 2025;12(4):241229
On the Persistence of Discourse Predictions: The Facilitative Effect of Discourse Markers Diminishes in the Presence of Intervening Material.40337359 · Scholman, Merel C J, Rohde, Hannah, Demberg, Vera2025 · 2 citationsOpen mind : discoveries in cognitive science. 2025;9:576-605
GestureCoach: Rehearsing for Engaging Talks with LLM-Driven Gesture Recommendations2504.10706v2 · Ashwin Ram, Varsha Suresh, Artin Saberpour Abadian et al.2025 · 2 citationsarXiv
Synthetic Data Augmentation for Cross-domain Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition2503.20588v1 · Frances Yung, Varsha Suresh, Zaynab Reza et al.2025 · 0 citationsarXiv
LLMs syntactically adapt their language use to their conversational partner2503.07457v2 · Florian Kandra, Vera Demberg, Alexander Koller2025 · 8 citationsarXiv
Enhancing Spoken Discourse Modeling in Language Models Using Gestural Cues2503.03474v1 · Varsha Suresh, M. Hamza Mughal, Christian Theobalt et al.2025 · 0 citationsarXiv
B-cos LM: Efficiently Transforming Pre-trained Language Models for Improved Explainability2502.12992v4 · Yifan Wang, Sukrut Rao, Ji-Ung Lee et al.2025 · 0 citationsarXiv
What Is That Talk About? A Video-to-Text Summarization Dataset for Scientific Presentations2502.08279v4 · Dongqi Liu, Chenxi Whitehouse, Xi Yu et al.2025 · 5 citationsarXiv
Beliefs About the Speaker's Reasoning Ability Influence Pragmatic Interpretation: Children and Adults as Speakers.39877147 · Mayn, Alexandra, Loy, Jia E, Demberg, Vera2025 · 0 citationsOpen mind : discoveries in cognitive science. 2025;9:89-120
Integrating Language Model Embeddings into the ACT-R Cognitive Modeling Frameworkfnmt9_v1 · Maryam Meghdadi, John Duff, Vera Demberg2025 · 3 citationsPsyArXiv
On Crowdsourcing Task Design for Discourse Relation Annotation2412.11637v1 · Frances Yung, Vera Demberg2024 · 0 citationsarXiv
Retrieving Semantics from the Deep: an RAG Solution for Gesture Synthesis2412.06786v3 · M. Hamza Mughal, Rishabh Dabral, Merel C.J. Scholman et al.2024 · 9 citationsarXiv
Speaking fast and slow: How speech rate affects contextual facilitation in degraded speech comprehensionseybg_v1 · Pratik Bhandari, Vera Demberg, Jutta Kray2024 · 1 citationPsyArXiv
RSA-Control: A Pragmatics-Grounded Lightweight Controllable Text Generation Framework2410.19109v1 · Yifan Wang, Vera Demberg2024 · 4 citationsarXiv
Multimodal Pragmatic Jailbreak on Text-to-image Models2409.19149v2 · Tong Liu, Zhixin Lai, Jiawen Wang et al.2024 · 2 citationsarXiv
The Design of Informative Take-Over Requests for Semi-Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems: Combining Spoken Language and Visual Icons in a Drone-Controller Setting2409.08253v2 · Ashwini Gundappa, Emilia Ellsiepen, Lukas Schmitz et al.2024 · 0 citationsarXiv
Human Speech Perception in Noise: Can Large Language Models Paraphrase to Improve It?2408.04029v1 · Anupama Chingacham, Miaoran Zhang, Vera Demberg et al.2024 · 0 citationsarXiv
Implicit Discourse Relation Classification For Nigerian Pidgin2406.18776v2 · Muhammed Saeed, Peter Bourgonje, Vera Demberg2024 · 1 citationarXiv
RST-LoRA: A Discourse-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation for Long Document Abstractive Summarization2405.00657v2 · Dongqi Liu, Vera Demberg2024 · 1 citationarXiv
Modeling Orthographic Variation Improves NLP Performance for Nigerian Pidgin2404.18264v1 · Pin-Jie Lin, Merel Scholman, Muhammed Saeed et al.2024 · 2 citationsarXiv
SciNews: From Scholarly Complexities to Public Narratives -- A Dataset for Scientific News Report Generation2403.17768v2 · Dongqi Liu, Yifan Wang, Jia Loy et al.2024 · 1 citationarXiv
Connective Comprehension in Adults: The Influence of Lexical Transparency, Frequency, and Individual Differences.39193317 · Scholman, Merel, Marchal, Marian, Demberg, Vera2024 · 7 citationsDiscourse processes. 2024;61(8):381-403
Perspective Taking Reflects Beliefs About Partner Sophistication: Modern Computer Partners Versus Basic Computer and Human Partners.38073609 · Loy, Jia E, Demberg, Vera2023 · 10 citationsCognitive science. 2023;47(12):e13385
Temperature-scaling surprisal estimates improve fit to human reading times -- but does it do so for the "right reasons"?2311.09325v2 · Tong Liu, Iza Skrjanec, Vera Demberg2023 · 8 citationsarXiv
Do large language models and humans have similar behaviors in causal inference with script knowledge?2311.07311v1 · Xudong Hong, Margarita Ryzhova, Daniel Adrian Biondi et al.2023 · 2 citationsarXiv
Individual Differences in Spatial Orientation Modulate Perspective Taking in Listeners.37663137 · Loy, Jia E, Demberg, Vera2023 · 5 citationsJournal of cognition. 2023;6(1):52
How statistical correlations influence discourse-level processing: Clause type as a cue for discourse relations.37561516 · Marchal, Marian, Scholman, Merel C J, Demberg, Vera2024 · 2 citationsJournal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition. 2024;50(5):796-807
Tackling Hallucinations in Neural Chart Summarization2308.00399v1 · Saad Obaid ul Islam, Iza Skrjanec, Ondrej Dusek et al.2023 · 6 citationsarXiv
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