Learning and using language via recursive pragmatic reasoning about other agents

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Smith, Nathaniel J ^a   Goodman, Noah D ^b   Frank, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CHILDREN LEARNING; COMMUNICATIVE SYSTEMS; IN CONTEXTS; NATIVE LANGUAGE; NEW TERMS; WORD LEARNING; WORD MEANING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84899001476     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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