2 papers
cs.CL2020
Investigating representations of verb bias in neural language models
Robert D. Hawkins, Takateru Yamakoshi, Thomas L. Griffiths +1
Languages typically provide more than one grammatical construction to express certain types of messages. A speaker's choice of construction is known to depend on multiple factors,…
cs.CL2020
Generalizing meanings from partners to populations: Hierarchical inference supports convention formation on networks
Robert D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman, Adele E. Goldberg +1
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. A…