Revisiting the Predictability of Language: Response Completion in Social Media

Factors Impacting the Quality of User Answers on Smartphones

So far, most research investigating the predictability of human behavior, such as mobility and social interactions, has focused mainly on the exploitation of sensor data. However, sensor data can be difficult to capture …

Revisiting the Predictability of Performative, Social Events

Social predictions do not passively describe the future; they actively shape it. They inform actions and change individual expectations in ways that influence the likelihood of the predicted outcome. Given these dynamics…

Evaluating Large Language Models for Document-grounded Response Generation in Information-Seeking Dialogues

In this paper, we investigate the use of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT for document-grounded response generation in the context of information-seeking dialogues. For evaluation, we use the MultiDoc2Dial corpu…

Can You be More Social? Injecting Politeness and Positivity into Task-Oriented Conversational Agents

Goal-oriented conversational agents are becoming prevalent in our daily lives. For these systems to engage users and achieve their goals, they need to exhibit appropriate social behavior as well as provide informative re…

On the Predictability of Human Assessment: when Matrix Completion Meets NLP Evaluation