An incremental iterated response model of pragmatics

R Cohn-Gordon, ND Goodman, C Potts - arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00367, 2018 - arxiv.org
arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00367, 2018arxiv.org
Recent Iterated Response (IR) models of pragmatics conceptualize language use as a
recursive process in which agents reason about each other to increase communicative
efficiency. These models are generally defined over complete utterances. However, there is
substantial evidence that pragmatic reasoning takes place incrementally during production
and comprehension. We address this with an incremental IR model. We compare the
incremental and global versions using computational simulations, and we assess the …
Recent Iterated Response (IR) models of pragmatics conceptualize language use as a recursive process in which agents reason about each other to increase communicative efficiency. These models are generally defined over complete utterances. However, there is substantial evidence that pragmatic reasoning takes place incrementally during production and comprehension. We address this with an incremental IR model. We compare the incremental and global versions using computational simulations, and we assess the incremental model against existing experimental data and in the TUNA corpus for referring expression generation, showing that the model can capture phenomena out of reach of global versions.
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