Work that I enjoyed doing with Kanishka will be presented at #EACL2026! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.127...

If I spill the tea—“Did you know Sue, Max’s gf, was a tennis champ?”—but then if you reply “They’re dating?!” I’d be a bit puzzled, since that’s not the main point! Humans can track what’s ‘at issue’ in conversation. How sensitive are LMs to this distinction? New paper w/ @sangheekim.bsky.social!