1 code implementation • 6 Jun 2023 • Takateru Yamakoshi, James L. McClelland, Adele E. Goldberg, Robert D. Hawkins
Accounts of human language processing have long appealed to implicit ``situation models'' that enrich comprehension with relevant but unstated world knowledge.
1 code implementation • 12 Apr 2021 • Robert D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Michael C. Frank, Adele E. Goldberg, Kenny Smith, Thomas L. Griffiths, Noah D. Goodman
Languages are powerful solutions to coordination problems: they provide stable, shared expectations about how the words we say correspond to the beliefs and intentions in our heads.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2020 • Robert D. Hawkins, Takateru Yamakoshi, Thomas L. Griffiths, Adele E. Goldberg
Languages typically provide more than one grammatical construction to express certain types of messages.
1 code implementation • 4 Feb 2020 • Robert D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman, Adele E. Goldberg, Thomas L. Griffiths
A key property of linguistic conventions is that they hold over an entire community of speakers, allowing us to communicate efficiently even with people we have never met before.