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# Robert D. Hawkins

2 paper cards in Mova's library · 2025

Robert D. Hawkins wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2025; often with Haoran Zhao, [Michael Franke](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/michael-franke/), Polina Tsvilodub.

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## Papers

1. **[Comparing human and LLM politeness strategies in free production](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/zhao-2025-comparing-human-llm-politeness-strategies/)** *(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…
2. **[Integrating Neural and Symbolic Components in a Model of Pragmatic Question-Answering](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/tsvilodub-2025-integrating-neural-symbolic-components-model/)** *(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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/michael-franke/)
- Polina Tsvilodub
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