@inproceedings{liang-etal-2025-semantic,
    title = "Semantic, Orthographic, and Phonological Biases in Humans' Wordle Gameplay",
    author = "Liang, Jiadong  and
      Kabbara, Adam  and
      Liu, Jiaying  and
      Luo, Ronaldo  and
      Kim, Kina  and
      Guerzhoy, Michael",
    editor = "Inui, Kentaro  and
      Sakti, Sakriani  and
      Wang, Haofen  and
      Wong, Derek F.  and
      Bhattacharyya, Pushpak  and
      Banerjee, Biplab  and
      Ekbal, Asif  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Singh, Dhirendra Pratap",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = dec,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Mumbai, India",
    publisher = "The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing and The Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-ijcnlp-aacl/2025.findings-ijcnlp.67/",
    pages = "1128--1135",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-303-6",
    abstract = "We show that human players' gameplay in the game of Wordle is influenced by the semantics, orthography, and phonology of the player{'}s previous guesses. We compare actual human players' guesses with near-optimal guesses using NLP techniques. We study human language use in the constrained environment of Wordle, which is situated between natural language use and the artificial word association task."
}