4 papers
Formal specification and behavioral simulation of the holiday gift exchange game
Daniel Quigley
The holiday gift exchange game is a familiar social institution with nontrivial strategic structure. We provide a formal treatment of the game's mechanics, defining the state space…
A vector logic for intensional formal semantics
Daniel Quigley
Formal semantics and distributional semantics are distinct approaches to linguistic meaning: the former models meaning as reference via model-theoretic structures; the latter repre…
On measuring grounding and generalizing grounding problems
Daniel Quigley, Eric Maynard
The symbol grounding problem asks how tokens like cat can be about cats, as opposed to mere shapes manipulated in a calculus. We recast grounding from a binary judgment into an aud…
Optimally Dictatorial Committees
D. Carlos Akkar
I study the optimal voting mechanism for a committee that must decide whether to enact or block a policy of unknown benefit. Information can come both from committee members who ca…