AI RESEARCH
When Contextual Inference Fails: Cancelability in Interactive Instruction Following
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2603.19997v1 Announce Type: new We investigate the separation of literal interpretation from contextual inference in a collaborative block-building task where a builder must resolve underspecified instructions using contextual inferences. Building on an existing two-speaker psycholinguistic paradigm -- which contrasts a pragmatically cooperative speaker with one who is only literally reliable -- we