LVLMs and Humans Ground Differently in Referential Communication.

Susan Brennan Susan E. Brennan Stony Brook University, USA http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/sbrennan-/ https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q63456738 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003025329 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Brennan

Peter Zeng Weiling Li Amie Paige Zhengxiang Wang Panagiotis Kaliosis Dimitris Samaras Gregory J. Zelinsky Susan Brennan Owen Rambow LVLMs and Humans Ground Differently in Referential Communication. 2026 January abs/2601.19792 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.19792 db/journals/corr/corr2601.html#abs-2601-19792 streams/journals/corr

Zhengxiang Wang Weiling Li Panagiotis Kaliosis Owen Rambow Susan Brennan LVLMs are Bad at Overhearing Human Referential Communication. 16758-16782 2025 EMNLP https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.849 conf/emnlp/2025 db/conf/emnlp/emnlp2025.html#WangLKRB25 streams/conf/emnlp

Zhengxiang Wang Weiling Li Panagiotis Kaliosis Owen Rambow Susan E. Brennan LVLMs are Bad at Overhearing Human Referential Communication. 2025 September abs/2509.11514 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.11514 db/journals/corr/corr2509.html#abs-2509-11514 streams/journals/corr

Amie J. Paige Adil Soubki John Murzaku Owen Rambow Susan E. Brennan Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Dialogues about Roadrunner Cartoons. 204-215 2024 SIGDIAL https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.sigdial-1.18 https://aclanthology.org/2024.sigdial-1.18 conf/sigdial/2024 db/conf/sigdial/sigdial2024.html#PaigeSMRB24 streams/conf/sigdial

Amie J. Paige Adil Soubki John Murzaku Owen Rambow Susan E. Brennan Training LLMs to Recognize Hedges in Spontaneous Narratives. 2024 abs/2408.03319 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.03319 db/journals/corr/corr2408.html#abs-2408-03319 streams/journals/corr

Susan Brennan Keynote - More than meets the ear: Processes that shape dialogue. 54 2016 SIGDIAL Conference https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w16-3607 https://aclanthology.org/W16-3607/ conf/sigdial/2016 db/conf/sigdial/sigdial2016.html#Brennan16 Susan E. Brennan Daniel C. Richardson Michael J. Richardson Andreas Roepstorff Natalie Sebanz Günther Knoblich Progress in Joint Action Research. 2013 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/84t980q4 conf/cogsci/2013 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2013.html#BrennanRRRSK13 Susan Brennan Katharina Schuhmann Karla Batres Entrainment on the Move and in the Lab: The Walking Around Corpus. 2013 CogSci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wr90402 conf/cogsci/2013 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2013.html#BrennanSB13 Patrick Jermann Darren Gergle Roman Bednarik Susan Brennan Duet 2012: dual eye tracking in CSCW. 23-24 2012 CSCW (Companion) https://doi.org/10.1145/2141512.2141525 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q61948878 conf/cscw/2012 db/conf/cscw/cscw2012.html#JermannGBB12 Joy E. Hanna Susan E. Brennan Using a Speaker's Eye-Gaze in Conversation: Benefits and Costs. 2011 CogSci https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2011/papers/0467/index.html conf/cogsci/2011 db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2011.html#HannaB11

Susan E. Brennan Joy E. Hanna Partner-Specific Adaptation in Dialog. 274-291 2009 1 Top. Cogn. Sci. 2 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2009.01019.x https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q38244097 db/journals/topics/topics1.html#BrennanH09

Amanda Stent Marie K. Huffman Susan E. Brennan Adapting speaking after evidence of misrecognition: Local and global hyperarticulation. 163-178 2008 50 Speech Commun. 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2007.07.005 db/journals/speech/speech50.html#StentHB08

Susan E. Brennan Klaus Mueller 0001 Gregory J. Zelinsky I. V. Ramakrishnan David Scott Warren Arie E. Kaufman Toward a Multi-Analyst, Collaborative Framework for Visual Analytics. 129-136 2006 IEEE VAST https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2006.261439 https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VAST.2006.261439 conf/ieeevast/2006 db/conf/ieeevast/ieeevast2006.html#BrennanMZRWK06 Randy Stein Susan Brennan Another person's eye gaze as a cue in solving programming problems. 9-15 2004 conf/icmi/2004 ICMI https://doi.org/10.1145/1027933.1027936 db/conf/icmi/icmi2004.html#SteinB04 Susan R. Fussell Robert E. Kraut Jane Siegel Susan Brennan Relationships among speech, vision, and action in collaborative physical tasks. 916-917 2002 conf/chi/2002a CHI Extended Abstracts https://doi.org/10.1145/506443.506657 db/conf/chi/chi2002a.html#FussellKSB02 Susan E. Brennan How visual co-presence and joint attention shape speaking. 2001 INTERSPEECH https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/eurospeech_2001/brennan01_eurospeech.html conf/interspeech/2001 db/conf/interspeech/interspeech2001.html#Brennan01

Fawzi Daud Michael Mateas Phoebe Sengers Susan Brennan Alain Giboin David R. Traum Vinay K. Chaudri Richard Fikes Donia Scott Richard Power David D. Jensen Reports on the AAAI Fall Symposia (November 1999 and November 1998). 85-88 2000 21 AI Mag. 2 db/journals/aim/aim21.html#DaudMSBGTCFSPJ00 https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v21i2.1511

Susan Brennan Invited Talk: Processes that Shape Conversation and their Implications for Computational Linguistics. 2000 conf/acl/2000 ACL https://aclanthology.org/P00-1001/ https://doi.org/10.3115/1075218.1075219 db/conf/acl/acl2000.html#Brennan00 1-11 Susan Brennan Justina O. Ohaeri Why do electronic conversations seem less polite? the costs and benefits of hedging. 227-235 1999 conf/wacc/1999 WACC https://doi.org/10.1145/295665.295942 https://doi.org/10.1145/295666.295942 db/conf/wacc/wacc1999.html#BrennanO99

Susan Brennan Eric A. Hulteen Interaction and feedback in a spoken language system: a theoretical framework. 143-151 1995 8 Knowl. Based Syst. 2-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0950-7051(95)98376-H db/journals/kbs/kbs8.html#BrennanH95

Susan Brennan Justina O. Ohaeri Effects of message style on users' attributions toward agents. 281-282 1994 conf/chi/1994c CHI Conference Companion https://doi.org/10.1145/259963.260492 db/conf/chi/chi1994c.html#BrennanO94

Susan E. Brennan Marilyn W. Friedman Carl Pollard A Centering Approach to Pronouns. 1994 abs/cmp-lg/9410005 CoRR http://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9410005 db/journals/corr/corr9410.html#BrennanFP94

Abbe Don Susan Brennan Brenda Laurel Ben Shneiderman Anthropomorphism: From Eliza to Terminator 2. 67-70 1992 conf/chi/1992 CHI db/conf/chi/chi92.html#DonBLS92 https://doi.org/10.1145/142750.142760

Susan Brennan Conversation with and through Computers. 67-86 1991 1 User Model. User Adapt. Interact. 2 db/journals/umuai/umuai1.html#Brennan91 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00158952

Steve Whittaker 0001 Susan E. Brennan Herbert H. Clark Co-ordinating activity: an analysis of interaction in computer-supported co-operative work. 361-367 1991 CHI https://doi.org/10.1145/108844.108944 conf/chi/1991 db/conf/chi/chi1991.html#WhittakerBC91 Herbert H. Clark Susan E. Brennan Grounding in communication. 127-149 1991 Perspectives on socially shared cognition https://doi.org/10.1037/10096-006 books/others/91/RLT1991 db/books/collections/RLT1991.html#ClarkB91 Susan Brennan The Multimedia Articulation of Answers in a Natural Language Database Query System. 1-8 1988 conf/anlp/1988 ANLP https://aclanthology.org/A88-1001/ https://doi.org/10.3115/974235.974237 db/conf/anlp/anlp1988.html#Brennan88 Susan E. Brennan Marilyn W. Friedman Carl Pollard A Centering Approach to Pronouns. 155-162 1987 ACL https://aclanthology.org/P87-1022/ https://doi.org/10.3115/981175.981197 conf/acl/1987 db/conf/acl/acl1987.html#BrennanFP87 Susan E. Brennan Caricatures from images. 228-229 1984 ACM Annual Conference https://doi.org/10.1145/800171.809631 conf/acm/1984 db/conf/acm/acm1984.html#Brennan84 Andrew J. Hanson David M. McKeown Jr. Susan E. Brennan Alex Pentland Richard F. Voss Vision, perception and imagery. 228-229 1984 ACM Annual Conference https://doi.org/10.1145/800171.809628 conf/acm/1984 db/conf/acm/acm1984.html#HansonMBPV84 Karla Batres Roman Bednarik Vinay K. Chaudri Herbert H. Clark Fawzi Daud Abbe Don Richard Fikes Marilyn W. Friedman Susan R. Fussell Darren Gergle Alain Giboin Joy E. Hanna Andrew J. Hanson Marie K. Huffman Eric A. Hulteen David D. Jensen Patrick Jermann Panagiotis Kaliosis Arie E. Kaufman Günther Knoblich Robert E. Kraut Brenda Laurel Weiling Li Michael Mateas David M. McKeown Jr. Klaus Mueller 0001 John Murzaku Justina O. Ohaeri Amie Paige Amie J. Paige Alex Pentland Carl Pollard Richard Power I. V. Ramakrishnan Owen Rambow Daniel C. Richardson Michael J. Richardson Andreas Roepstorff Dimitris Samaras Katharina Schuhmann Donia Scott Natalie Sebanz Phoebe Sengers Ben Shneiderman Jane Siegel Adil Soubki Randy Stein Amanda Stent David R. Traum Richard F. Voss Zhengxiang Wang David Scott Warren Steve Whittaker 0001 Gregory J. Zelinsky Peter Zeng