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cs.CL2023★ 1 cited
Expectations over Unspoken Alternatives Predict Pragmatic Inferences
Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy, Judith Degen +1
Scalar inferences (SI) are a signature example of how humans interpret language based on unspoken alternatives. While empirical studies have demonstrated that human SI rates are hi…
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★ 2 cited
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…