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View article: An ACT-R model of resource-rational performance in a pragmatic signaling game
An ACT-R model of resource-rational performance in a pragmatic signaling game Open
In the Gricean tradition, pragmatic competence is part of the general human capacity for social reasoning. Indeed, human performance in signaling games involving ad-hoc implicatures sometimes aligns with idealized models of rational intera…
View article: The role of reinforcement learning in pragmatic reasoning tasks: Modeling and validating the sources of individual differences
The role of reinforcement learning in pragmatic reasoning tasks: Modeling and validating the sources of individual differences Open
In Gricean pragmatics, inference during communication is regarded as a form of rational, domain-general reasoning about the intentions of other agents.Studies using the pictorial communication "reference game" task are sometimes used in su…
View article: Sources of individual variability in a pragmatic reference game: Effects of reasoning and Theory of Mind
Sources of individual variability in a pragmatic reference game: Effects of reasoning and Theory of Mind Open
While in theory people are expected to adhere to rational communicative principles, a growing body of work shows that people vary widely in their tendency to draw pragmatic inferences. It has been suggested that these differences may, in p…
View article: An ACT-R model of resource-rational performance in a pragmatic signaling game
An ACT-R model of resource-rational performance in a pragmatic signaling game Open
In the Gricean tradition, pragmatic competence is part of the general human capacity for social reasoning. Indeed, human performance in signaling games involving ad-hoc implicatures sometimes aligns with idealized models of rational intera…
View article: Beliefs About the Speaker’s Reasoning Ability Influence Pragmatic Interpretation: Children and Adults as Speakers
Beliefs About the Speaker’s Reasoning Ability Influence Pragmatic Interpretation: Children and Adults as Speakers Open
The cooperative principle states that communicators expect each other to be cooperative and adhere to rational conversational principles. Do listeners keep track of the reasoning sophistication of the speaker and incorporate it into the in…
View article: Beliefs about the speaker's reasoning ability influence pragmatic interpretation: Children and adults as speakers
Beliefs about the speaker's reasoning ability influence pragmatic interpretation: Children and adults as speakers Open
The cooperative principle states that communicators expect each other to be cooperative and adhere to rational conversational principles. Do listeners keep track of the reasoning sophistication of the speaker and incorporate it into the in…
View article: High Performance on a Pragmatic Task May Not Be the Result of Successful Reasoning: On the Importance of Eliciting Participants’ Reasoning Strategies
High Performance on a Pragmatic Task May Not Be the Result of Successful Reasoning: On the Importance of Eliciting Participants’ Reasoning Strategies Open
Formal probabilistic models, such as the Rational Speech Act model, are widely used for formalizing the reasoning involved in various pragmatic phenomena, and when a model achieves good fit to experimental data, that is interpreted as evid…
View article: Evaluating Automatic Difficulty Estimation of Logic Formalization Exercises
Evaluating Automatic Difficulty Estimation of Logic Formalization Exercises Open
Teaching logic effectively requires an understanding of the factors which cause logic students to struggle. Formalization exercises, which require the student to produce a formula corresponding to the natural language sentence, are a good …
View article: Pragmatics of Metaphor Revisited: Formalizing the Role of Typicality and Alternative Utterances in Metaphor Understanding
Pragmatics of Metaphor Revisited: Formalizing the Role of Typicality and Alternative Utterances in Metaphor Understanding Open
Experimental pragmatics tells us that a metaphor conveys salient features of a vehicle and that highly typical features tend to be salient. But can highly atypical features also be salient? When asking if John is loyal and hearing “John is…
View article: A conditional independence test for causality in econometrics
A conditional independence test for causality in econometrics Open
The Y-test is a useful tool for detecting missing confounders in the context of a multivariate regression.However, it is rarely used in practice since it requires identifying multiple conditionally independent instruments, which is often i…
View article: Familiar words but strange voices: Modelling the influence of speech variability on word recognition
Familiar words but strange voices: Modelling the influence of speech variability on word recognition Open
We present a deep neural model of spoken word recognition which is trained to retrieve the meaning of a word (in the form of a word embedding) given its spoken form, a task which resembles that faced by a human listener. Furthermore, we in…
View article: Towards Generating Effective Explanations of Logical Formulas: Challenges and Strategies,
Towards Generating Effective Explanations of Logical Formulas: Challenges and Strategies, Open
A description of the challenges involved in generating explanations of logical formulas, and some initial thoughts about how they may be resolved.