Robert D. Hawkins
Robert D. Hawkins wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2025; often with Haoran Zhao, Michael Franke, Polina Tsvilodub.
Papers
- Comparing human and LLM politeness strategies in free production (2025)
The study replicates Yoon et al. (2020) with LLMs. A speaker gives feedback on a performance rated 0–3 hearts, with the goal of being informative, kind, or both, and chooses among «was / wasn't» + terrible, bad, good, amazing. Models of 70B parameters and more reproduce the human pattern (Spearman up to 0.75): with… - Integrating Neural and Symbolic Components in a Model of Pragmatic Question-Answering (2025)
The case is over-informative answering: asked «Do you have iced tea?» in a café that has iced coffee, soda and Chardonnay, people answer «No, but we have iced coffee».
Co-authors (3)
- Haoran Zhao
- Michael Franke
- Polina Tsvilodub
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