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Causal interventions expose implicit situation models for commonsense language understanding
Takateru Yamakoshi, James L. McClelland, Adele E. Goldberg +1
Accounts of human language processing have long appealed to implicit ``situation models'' that enrich comprehension with relevant but unstated world knowledge. Here, we apply causa…
Overinformative Question Answering by Humans and Machines
Polina Tsvilodub, Michael Franke, Robert D. Hawkins +1
When faced with a polar question, speakers often provide overinformative answers going beyond a simple "yes" or "no". But what principles guide the selection of additional informat…
Semantic uncertainty guides the extension of conventions to new referents
Ron Eliav, Anya Ji, Yoav Artzi +1
A long tradition of studies in psycholinguistics has examined the formation and generalization of ad hoc conventions in reference games, showing how newly acquired conventions for…