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How You Ask Shapes What You Get: A Theory-Seeded Measurement of Articulation in Advice-Seeking LLM Conversations

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-08-30 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-08-30 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-01

Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-09-01

Abstract

Users articulate the same advice-seeking request in different ways: some specify detailed constraints, others gesture at a vague need. Prior work treats this variation as noise to be averaged away; we instead treat it as a stable, measurable structure in the input distribution. We ask whether articulation (how people ask) forms latent dimensions separable from topic (what they ask about), and whet

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