TY - GEN
T1 - Analyzing speaker strategy in referential communication
AU - McMahan, Brian
AU - Stone, Matthew
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by NSF awards IIS-1526723 and CCF-1934924. Preliminary versions were presented at NYU and Bochum. Thanks to audiences there, the anonymous reviewers, Malihe Alikhani, and Baber Khalid for comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We analyze a corpus of referential communication through the lens of quantitative models of speaker reasoning. Different models place different emphases on linguistic reasoning and collaborative reasoning. This leads models to make different assessments of the risks and rewards of using specific utterances in specific contexts. By fitting a latent variable model to the corpus, we can exhibit utterances that give systematic evidence of the diverse kinds of reasoning speakers employ, and build integrated models that recognize not only speaker reference but also speaker reasoning.
AB - We analyze a corpus of referential communication through the lens of quantitative models of speaker reasoning. Different models place different emphases on linguistic reasoning and collaborative reasoning. This leads models to make different assessments of the risks and rewards of using specific utterances in specific contexts. By fitting a latent variable model to the corpus, we can exhibit utterances that give systematic evidence of the diverse kinds of reasoning speakers employ, and build integrated models that recognize not only speaker reference but also speaker reasoning.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85108617571
T3 - SIGDIAL 2020 - 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference
SP - 175
EP - 185
BT - SIGDIAL 2020 - 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2020
Y2 - 1 July 2020 through 3 July 2020
ER -