Efficient Strategies of Language Production: An Information-Theoretic Analysis

This is the repository for:

• Mario Giulianelli and Raquel Fernández. 2021. Analysing Human Strategies of Information Transmission as a Function of Discourse Context. CONLL 2021.
• Mario Giulianelli, Arabella Sinclair, Raquel Fernández. 2021. Is Information Density Uniform in Task-Oriented Dialogues? EMNLP 2021.
• Mario Giulianelli, Arabella Sinclair, Raquel Fernández. 2022. Construction Repetition Reduces Information Rate in Dialogue. AACL-IJCNLP 2022.

For an overview of this line of work you can also take a look at this slide deck.

For any questions regarding the contents of this repository, and to obtain the data used in our experiments, please contact Mario Giulianelli at mgiulianelli@inf.ethz.ch.