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20152023
most citedA practical introduction to the Rational Speech Act modeling framework

7 citations · 20 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CL2023

Evaluating Pragmatic Abilities of Image Captioners on A3DS

Polina Tsvilodub, Michael Franke

Evaluating grounded neural language model performance with respect to pragmatic qualities like the trade off between truthfulness, contrastivity and overinformativity of generated…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Overinformative Question Answering by Humans and Machines

Polina Tsvilodub, Michael Franke, Robert D. Hawkins +1

When faced with a polar question, speakers often provide overinformative answers going beyond a simple "yes" or "no". But what principles guide the selection of additional informat…

cs.SI2021★ 6 cited

Mutual influence between language and perception in multi-agent communication games

Xenia Ohmer, Michael Marino, Michael Franke +1

Language interfaces with many other cognitive domains. This paper explores how interactions at these interfaces can be studied with deep learning methods, focusing on the relation…

cs.CL2021★ 7 cited

A practical introduction to the Rational Speech Act modeling framework

Gregory Scontras, Michael Henry Tessler, Michael Franke

Recent advances in computational cognitive science (i.e., simulation-based probabilistic programs) have paved the way for significant progress in formal, implementable models of pr…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Probabilistic modeling of rational communication with conditionals

Britta Grusdt, Daniel Lassiter, Michael Franke

While a large body of work has scrutinized the meaning of conditional sentences, considerably less attention has been paid to formal models of their pragmatic use and interpretatio…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention

Robert D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Michael C. Frank +4

Languages are powerful solutions to coordination problems: they provide stable, shared expectations about how the words we say correspond to the beliefs and intentions in our heads…

cs.GT2015

Smart Transformations: The Evolution of Choice Principles

Paolo Galeazzi, Michael Franke

Evolutionary game theory classically investigates which behavioral patterns are evolutionarily successful in a single game. More recently, a number of contributions have studied th…