Knowledge and implicature: Modeling language understanding as social cognition

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 390-395

  Goodman, Noah D ^a   Stuhlmüller, Andreas ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian model; Language; Scalar implicature

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BAYESIAN MODELLING; HUMAN JUDGMENTS; KNOWLEDGE STATE; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; MODEL PREDICTION; SCALAR IMPLICATURE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SPEECH ACT THEORY;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 85139182407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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