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James Martin

2 accepted papers

2025

In Search of the Lost Arch in Dialogue: A Dependency Dialogue Acts Corpus for Multi-Party Dialogues

ACL 2025finding

Understanding the structure of multi-party conversation and the intentions and dialogue acts of each speaker remains a significant challenge in NLP. While a number of corpora annotated using theoretical frameworks of dialogue have been proposed, these typically focus on either utterance-level labeli…

2025

On the Role of Semantic Proto-roles in Semantic Analysis: What do LLMs know about agency?

ACL 2025finding

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in decision-making contexts, yet their ability to reason over event structure—an important component in the situational awareness needed to make complex decisions—is not well understood. By operationalizing proto-role theory, which characterizes age…