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A pragmatic account of the weak evidence effect
Samuel A. Barnett, Thomas L. Griffiths, Robert D. Hawkins
Language is not only used to transmit neutral information; we often seek to persuade by arguing in favor of a particular view. Persuasion raises a number of challenges for classica…
Open-domain clarification question generation without question examples
Julia White, Gabriel Poesia, Robert Hawkins +2
An overarching goal of natural language processing is to enable machines to communicate seamlessly with humans. However, natural language can be ambiguous or unclear. In cases of u…
Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions
William P. McCarthy, Robert D. Hawkins, Haoliang Wang +2
Many real-world tasks require agents to coordinate their behavior to achieve shared goals. Successful collaboration requires not only adopting the same communicative conventions, b…
Extending rational models of communication from beliefs to actions
Theodore R. Sumers, Robert D. Hawkins, Mark K. Ho +1
Speakers communicate to influence their partner's beliefs and shape their actions. Belief- and action-based objectives have been explored independently in recent computational mode…
Shades of confusion: Lexical uncertainty modulates ad hoc coordination in an interactive communication task
Sonia K. Murthy, Thomas L. Griffiths, Robert D. Hawkins
There is substantial variability in the expectations that communication partners bring into interactions, creating the potential for misunderstandings. To directly probe these gaps…
From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention
Robert D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Michael C. Frank +4
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…