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Simeon Junker

3 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…

2025

SceneGram: Conceptualizing and Describing Tangrams in Scene Context

ACL 2025finding

Research on reference and naming suggests that humans can come up with very different ways of conceptualizing and referring to the same object, e.g. the same abstract tangram shape can be a “crab”, “sink” or “space ship”. Another common assumption in cognitive science is that scene context fundament…

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…