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cs.CL2024
Explaining vague language
Paul Égré, Benjamin Spector
Why is language vague? Vagueness may be explained and rationalized if it can be shown that vague language is more useful to speaker and hearer than precise language. In a well-know…
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Exhaustivity and anti-exhaustivity in the RSA framework: Testing the effect of prior beliefs
Alexandre Cremers, Ethan G. Wilcox, Benjamin Spector
During communication, the interpretation of utterances is sensitive to a listener's probabilistic prior beliefs, something which is captured by one currently influential model of p…