2 papers
cs.CL2026
Act or Clarify? Modeling Sensitivity to Uncertainty and Cost in Communication
Polina Tsvilodub, Karl Mulligan, Todd Snider +2
When deciding how to act under uncertainty, agents may choose to act to reduce uncertainty or they may act despite that uncertainty. In communicative settings, an important way of…
cs.CL2025
Integrating Neural and Symbolic Components in a Model of Pragmatic Question-Answering
Polina Tsvilodub, Robert D. Hawkins, Michael Franke
Computational models of pragmatic language use have traditionally relied on hand-specified sets of utterances and meanings, limiting their applicability to real-world language use.…