Modeling cross-linguistic production of referring expressions

no code implementations • SCiL 2021 • Brandon Waldon, Judith Degen

Predicting scalar inferences from “or” to “not both” using neural sentence encoders

no code implementations • SCiL 2021 • Elissa Li, Sebastian Schuster, Judith Degen

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Modeling Behavior in Truth Value Judgment Task Experiments

1 code implementation • SCiL 2020 • Brandon Waldon, Judith Degen

Expectations over Unspoken Alternatives Predict Pragmatic Inferences

1 code implementation • 7 Apr 2023 • Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy, Judith Degen, Sebastian Schuster

Here, we test a shared mechanism explaining SI rates within and across scales: context-driven expectations about the unspoken alternatives.

Harnessing the linguistic signal to predict scalar inferences

1 code implementation • ACL 2020 • Sebastian Schuster, Yuxing Chen, Judith Degen

Pragmatic inferences often subtly depend on the presence or absence of linguistic features.

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When redundancy is useful: A Bayesian approach to 'overinformative' referring expressions

1 code implementation • 19 Mar 2019 • Judith Degen, Robert D. Hawkins, Caroline Graf, Elisa Kreiss, Noah D. Goodman

Crucially, we relax the assumption that informativeness is computed with respect to a deterministic Boolean semantics, in favor of a non-deterministic continuous semantics.

Informativeness Specificity