2024:
Efficiency and Effectiveness in Task-Oriented Dialogue: On Construction Repetition, Information Rate, and Task Success, Jun Sen Yee, Mario Giulianelli and Arabella Sinclair. To appear in LREC-COLING 2024 -
2023:
Attribution & Alignment: Investigating the Effects of Context on Model Utterance Production and Comprehension in Dialogue, Molnar, A., Jumelet, J., Giulianelli, M. & Sinclair, A. In Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) (pp. 254-273), December 2023 pdf
Alignment of code switching varies with proficiency in second language learning dialogue,
Sinclair, A. J. & Fernández, R. Special issue on Linguistic Alignment in Second Language Acquisition, System Journal, Volume 113, April 2023, 102952 pdf
2022:
Construction Repetition Reduces Information Rate in Dialogue. Giulianelli, M., Sinclair, A., & Fernández, R. arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.08321. 2022. pdf
State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP: a taxonomy and review. Hupkes, D., Giulianelli, M., Dankers, V., Artetxe, M., Elazar, Y., Pimentel, T., ...Sinclair, A. ... & Jin, Z. arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.03050. 2022. pdf
Structural Persistence in Language Models: Priming as a Window into Abstract Language Representations. Sinclair, A., Jumelet, J., Zuidema, W., & Fernández, R. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 10, 1031-1050. 2022. pdf
AnaLog: Testing Analytical and Deductive Logic Learnability in Language Models. Ryb, Samuel, Mario Giulianelli, Arabella Sinclair, and Raquel Fernández. In Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, pp. 55-68. 2022. pdf
Detecting Age-Related Linguistic Patterns in Dialogue: Toward Adaptive Conversational Systems. Lennert Jansen, Arabella Sinclair, Margot Van der Goot, Raquel Fernández, Sandro Pezzelle. Proceedings of the 8th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-it) 2022. pdf
2021:
Construction Coordination in First and Second Language Acquisition. Arabella Sinclair and Raquel Fernández. In Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. 2021 pdf Bibtex talk
Linguistic and Gestural Coordination: Do Learners Converge in Collaborative Dialogue? Arabella Sinclair and Bertrand Schneider. In Proceedings of Educational Data Mining (EDM21). 2021 pdf Bibtex talk
Is Information Density Uniform in Task-Oriented Dialogues? Mario Giulianelli, Arabella Sinclair and Raquel Fernández. To appear in Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2021 Bibtex
Exploring the potential of adapting conversational systems to different age groups: A pilot study. Margot Van der Goot, Marios Georgiou, Špela Dolinšek, Lennert Jansen, Arabella Sinclair, Raquel Fernández, Sandro Pezzelle. CONVERSATIONS workshop 2021. pdf Bibtex
2020:
Refer, Reuse, Reduce: Grounding Subsequent References in Visual and Conversational Contexts. Ece Takmaz, Mario Giulianelli, Sandro Pezzelle, Arabella Sinclair, and Raquel Fernández. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2020. pdf Bibtex
Modelling Speaker Adaptation in Second Language Learner Dialogue. Arabella Sinclair. The University of Edinburgh. 2020. pdf Bibtex
2019:
Tutorbot Corpus: Evidence of Human-Agent Verbal Alignment in Second Language Learner Dialogues. Arabella Sinclair, Kate McCurdy, Adam Lopez, Christopher G. Lucas and Dragan Gasevic. In Proceedings of EDM 2019. pdf Bibtex
I wanna talk like you: Speaker Adaptation to Dialogue Style in L2 Practice Conversation. Arabella Sinclair, Rafael Ferreira, Dragan Gasevic, Christopher G. Lucas and Adam Lopez. In Proceedings of AIED 2019. pdf Bibtex
2018:
Does ability affect alignment in second language tutorial dialouge? Arabella Sinclair, Adam Lopez, Christopher G. Lucas and Dragan Gasevic. In Proceedings of SIGDIAL 2018. pdf Bibtex
2017:
Finding the Zone of Proximal Development: Student-Tutor Second Language Dialogue Interactions. Arabella Sinclair, Jon Oberlander, Dragan Gasevic, SEMDIAL 2017 (SaarDial) Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue pdf Bibtex