What Makes a Good Query? Measuring the Impact of Human-Confusing Linguistic Features on LLM Performance

William Watson, Nicole Cho, Sumitra Ganesh, Manuela Veloso. What Makes a Good Query? Measuring the Impact of Human-Confusing Linguistic Features on LLM Performance. In Vera Demberg, Kentaro Inui, Lluís Marquez, editors, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco, March 24-29, 2026. pages 4794-4827, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026. [doi]

@inproceedings{WatsonCGV26,
  title = {What Makes a Good Query? Measuring the Impact of Human-Confusing Linguistic Features on LLM Performance},
  author = {William Watson and Nicole Cho and Sumitra Ganesh and Manuela Veloso},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.251/},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/WatsonCGV26},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {4794-4827},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026, Rabat, Morocco, March 24-29, 2026},
  editor = {Vera Demberg and Kentaro Inui and Lluís Marquez},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  isbn = {979-8-89176-386-9},
}