Search Results for author: Gregory Scontras

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A practical introduction to the Rational Speech Act modeling framework

no code implementations20 May 2021 Gregory Scontras, Michael Henry Tessler, Michael Franke

Recent advances in computational cognitive science (i. e., simulation-based probabilistic programs) have paved the way for significant progress in formal, implementable models of pragmatics.

Predicting cross-linguistic adjective order with information gain

no code implementations Findings (ACL) 2021 William Dyer, Richard Futrell, Zoey Liu, Gregory Scontras

Languages vary in their placement of multiple adjectives before, after, or surrounding the noun, but they typically exhibit strong intra-language tendencies on the relative order of those adjectives (e. g., the preference for `big blue box' in English, `grande bo\^{i}te bleue' in French, and `alsund\={u}q al'azraq alkab\={\i}r' in Arabic).

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