2 papers
cs.CL2019
Harnessing the linguistic signal to predict scalar inferences
Sebastian Schuster, Yuxing Chen, Judith Degen
Pragmatic inferences often subtly depend on the presence or absence of linguistic features. For example, the presence of a partitive construction (of the) increases the strength of…
cs.CL2019
When redundancy is useful: A Bayesian approach to 'overinformative' referring expressions
Judith Degen, Robert D. Hawkins, Caroline Graf +2
Referring is one of the most basic and prevalent uses of language. How do speakers choose from the wealth of referring expressions at their disposal? Rational theories of language…