Why do you ask? Good questions provoke informative answers

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 878-883

  Hawkins, Robert X D ^a   Stuhlmüller, Andreas ^a   Degen, Judith ^a   Goodman, Noah D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

answers; Bayesian models; language understanding; pragmatics; questions

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

ANSWER; BAYESIAN MODELLING; INFORMATIVENESS; LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; MODEL-BASED OPC; PRAGMATIC; QUESTION; SPEECH ACTS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 85139512811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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