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Qiujing Wang

2 accepted papers

2025

The Essence of Contextual Understanding in Theory of Mind: A Study on Question Answering with Story Characters

ACL 2025long

Theory-of-Mind (ToM) is a fundamental psychological capability that allows humans to understand and interpret the mental states of others. Humans infer others’ thoughts by integrating causal cues and indirect clues from broad contextual information, often derived from past interactions. In other wor…

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2024

Few-Shot Character Understanding in Movies as an Assessment to Meta-Learning of Theory-of-Mind

ICML 2024poster

When reading a story, humans can quickly understand new fictional characters with a few observations, mainly by drawing analogies to fictional and real people they already know. This reflects the few-shot and meta-learning essence of humans' inference of characters' mental states, *i.e.*, theory-of-…