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Hendrik Buschmeier

4 accepted papers

2025

Are Multimodal Large Language Models Pragmatically Competent Listeners in Simple Reference Resolution Tasks?

ACL 2025finding

We investigate the linguistic abilities of multimodal large language models in reference resolution tasks featuring simple yet abstract visual stimuli, such as color patches and color grids. Although the task may not seem challenging for today’s language models, being straightforward for human dyads…

2024

How Much Does Nonverbal Communication Conform to Entropy Rate Constancy?: A Case Study on Listener Gaze in Interaction

ACL 2024findings

According to the Entropy Rate Constancy (ERC) principle, the information density of a text is approximately constant over its length. Whether this principle also applies to nonverbal communication signals is still under investigation. We perform empirical analyses of video-recorded dialogue data and…

2024

The Illusion of Competence: Evaluating the Effect of Explanations on Users’ Mental Models of Visual Question Answering Systems

EMNLP 2024main

We examine how users perceive the limitations of an AI system when it encounters a task that it cannot perform perfectly and whether providing explanations alongside its answers aids users in constructing an appropriate mental model of the system’s capabilities and limitations. We employ a visual qu…

2023

Does Listener Gaze in Face-to-Face Interaction Follow the Entropy Rate Constancy Principle: An Empirical Study

EMNLP 2023short findings

It is generally assumed that language (written and spoken) follows the entropy rate constancy (ERC) principle, which states that the information density of a text is constant over time. Recently, this has also been found for nonverbal gestures used in monologue, but it is still unclear whether the E…

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