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doi:10.22028/D291-30473
Title: | Do Speakers Produce Discourse Connectives Rationally? |
Author(s): | Yung, Frances Pikyu Demberg, Vera |
Editor(s): | Idiart, Marco |
Language: | English |
Title: | Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning and Processing - proceedings of the Eighth workshop : July 19, 2018, Melbourne, Australia : ACL 2018 |
Startpage: | 6 |
Endpage: | 16 |
Publisher/Platform: | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Title of the Conference: | CogACLL 2018 |
Place of the conference: | Melbourne, Australia |
Publikation type: | Conference Paper |
Abstract: | A number of different discourse connectives can be used to mark the same discourse relation, but it is unclear what factors affect connective choice. One recent account is the Rational Speech Acts theory, which predicts that speakers try to maximize the informativeness of an utterance such that the listener can interpret the intended meaning correctly. Existing prior work uses referential language games to test the rational account of speakers’ production of concrete meanings, such as identification of objects within a picture. Building on the same paradigm, we design a novel Discourse Continuation Game to investigate speakers’ production of abstract discourse relations. Experimental results reveal that speakers significantly prefer a more informative connective, in line with predictions of the RSA model. |
DOI of the first publication: | 10.18653/v1/W18-2802 |
URL of the first publication: | https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-2802/ |
Link to this record: | hdl:20.500.11880/28863 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-30473 |
ISBN: | 978-1-948087-41-4 |
Date of registration: | 12-Mar-2020 |
Faculty: | MI - Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik |
Department: | MI - Informatik |
Professorship: | MI - Prof. Dr. Vera Demberg |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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