Vasanth Sarathy — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

IntelliProof: An Argumentation Network-based Conversational Helper for Organized Reflection

Kaveh Eskandari Miandoab, Katharine Kowalyshyn, Kabir Pamnani, Anesu Gavhera, Vasanth Sarathy, Matthias Scheutz

AAAI 2026technical

We present IntelliProof, an interactive system for analyzing argumentative essays through LLMs. IntelliProof structures an essay as an argumentation graph, where claims are represented as nodes, supporting evidence is attached as node properties, and edges encode supporting or attacking relations. U

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2026

Where Norms and References Collide: Evaluating LLMs on Normative Reasoning

Mitchell Abrams, Kaveh Eskandari Miandoab, Felix Gervits, Vasanth Sarathy, Matthias Scheutz

AAAI 2026technical

Embodied agents, such as robots, will need to interact in situated environments where successful communication often depends on reasoning over social norms: shared expectations that constrain what actions are appropriate in context. A key capability in such settings is norm-based reference resolutio

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2024

Large Language Models Know What To Say But Not When To Speak

Muhammad Umair, Vasanth Sarathy, Jan Ruiter

EMNLP 2024finding

Turn-taking is a fundamental mechanism in human communication that ensures smooth and coherent verbal interactions. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have motivated their use in improving the turn-taking capabilities of Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS), such as their ability to respond at…

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2024

Recognizing Value Resonance with Resonance-Tuned RoBERTa Task Definition, Experimental Validation, and Robust Modeling

Noam K. Benkler, Scott Friedman, Sonja Schmer-Galunder, Drisana Marissa Mosaphir, Robert P. Goldman, Ruta Wheelock +3

COLING 2024main

Understanding the implicit values and beliefs of diverse groups and cultures using qualitative texts – such as long-form narratives – and domain-expert interviews is a fundamental goal of social anthropology. This paper builds upon a 2022 study that introduced the NLP task of Recognizing Value Reson…

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2020

Reasoning Requirements for Indirect Speech Act Interpretation

Vasanth Sarathy, Alexander Tsuetaki, Antonio Roque, Matthias Scheutz

COLING 2020main

We perform a corpus analysis to develop a representation of the knowledge and reasoning used to interpret indirect speech acts. An indirect speech act (ISA) is an utterance whose intended meaning is different from its literal meaning. We focus on those speech acts in which slight changes in situatio…

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