Workshop
Meaning in Context: Pragmatic Communication in Humans and Machines
Jennifer Hu · Noga Zaslavsky · Aida Nematzadeh · Michael Franke · Roger Levy · Noah Goodman
Mon 13 Dec, 5:55 a.m. PST
Pragmatics – the aspects of language use that involve reasoning about context and other agents’ goals and belief states – has traditionally been treated as the “wastebasket” of language research (Bar-Hillel 1971), posing a challenge for both cognitive theories and artificial intelligence systems. Ideas from theoretical linguistics have inspired computational applications, such as in referential expression generation (Krahmer and van Deemter, 2012) or computational models of dialogue and recognition of speech or dialogue acts (Bunt and Black, 2000; Jurafsky, 2006; Ginzburg and Fernández, 2010; Bunt, 2016). But only recently, powerful artificial models based on neural or subsymbolic architectures have come into focus that generate or interpret language in pragmatically sophisticated and potentially open-ended ways (Golland et al. 2010, Andreas and Klein 2016, Monroe et al. 2017, Fried et al. 2018), building upon simultaneous advances in the cognitive science of pragmatics (Franke 2011, Frank and Goodman 2012). However, such models still fall short of human pragmatic reasoning in several important aspects. For example, existing approaches are often tailored to, or even trained to excel on, a specific pragmatic task (e.g., Mao et al. (2016) on discriminatory object description), leaving human-like task flexibility unaccounted for. It also remains largely underexplored how pragmatics connects to domain-general reasoning, how it may be efficiently implemented, and how it may arise over the course of learning and evolution. In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers from Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Machine Learning to think critically about the next generation of artificial pragmatic agents and theories of human pragmatic reasoning.
Schedule
Mon 5:55 a.m. - 6:00 a.m.
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Jennifer Hu · Noga Zaslavsky · Aida Nematzadeh · Michael Franke · Roger Levy · Noah Goodman 🔗 |
Mon 6:00 a.m. - 6:20 a.m.
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The Neurobiology of Pragmatics
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Peter Hagoort 🔗 |
Mon 6:20 a.m. - 6:30 a.m.
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Mon 6:30 a.m. - 6:40 a.m.
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Perspective-taking and Pragmatics for Generating Empathetic Responses Focused on Emotion Causes
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Hyunwoo Kim · Byeongchang Kim · Gunhee Kim 🔗 |
Mon 6:40 a.m. - 6:45 a.m.
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Mon 6:45 a.m. - 6:55 a.m.
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Lexical Pragmatics in the Wild: The Case of Complement Coercion
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Frederick Gietz · Barend Beekhuizen 🔗 |
Mon 6:55 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.
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Mon 7:00 a.m. - 7:20 a.m.
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Human Production Strategies for Neural Language Generation
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Raquel Fernández 🔗 |
Mon 7:20 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.
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Mon 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
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Mon 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
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Mon 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Unveiling the Meaning Through Emotional Context ( Poster ) > link | Tatiana Botskina 🔗 |
Mon 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Analysing Human Strategies of Information Transmission as a Function of Discourse Context ( Poster ) > link | Mario Giulianelli · Arabella Sinclair 🔗 |
Mon 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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The role of joint utility and pragmatic reasoning in cooperative communication ( Poster ) > link | Yiling Yun · Stephanie Stacy · Tao Gao 🔗 |
Mon 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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A model of contextual representations and their role for linguistic prediction ( Poster ) > link | Maxime Codere Corbeil 🔗 |
Mon 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Social inferencing in communication ( Poster ) > link | Asya Achimova · Martin V. Butz 🔗 |
Mon 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Context in Automated Affect Recognition ( Poster ) > link | Matt Groh · Rosalind Picard 🔗 |
Mon 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Underspecification in Executable Instructions ( Poster ) > link | Valentina Pyatkin · Royi Lachmy · Reut Tsarfaty 🔗 |
Mon 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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The gap between QUD-based topic determination and learning-based topic extraction for NLG ( Poster ) > link | Maurice Langner · Ralf Klabunde 🔗 |
Mon 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Ambiguity Advantage under Meaning Activation ( Poster ) > link | Liping Tang 🔗 |
Mon 10:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
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The Right Words for the Job: Coordinating on Task-Relevant Conventions via Bayesian Program Learning
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Robert Hawkins 🔗 |
Mon 10:50 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
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Mon 11:00 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.
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Loopholes: a Window into Value Alignment and the Learning of Meaning
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Sophie Bridgers · Elena Glassman · Laura Schulz · Tomer Ullman 🔗 |
Mon 11:10 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
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Mon 11:15 a.m. - 11:25 a.m.
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Intuitive Image Descriptions are Context-Sensitive
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Shayan Hooshmand · Elisa Kreiss · Christopher Potts 🔗 |
Mon 11:25 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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Mon 11:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.
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Incorporating Interaction in Models of Language Use
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Marieke Woensdregt 🔗 |
Mon 11:50 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Mon 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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Mon 12:30 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.
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Living in the moment: Studying pragmatic inference with temporally sensitive measures of comprehension
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Jesse Snedeker 🔗 |
Mon 12:50 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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Mon 1:00 p.m. - 1:10 p.m.
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Efficient Pragmatic Program Synthesis with Informative Specifications
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Saujas Vaduguru · Yewen Pu · Kevin Ellis 🔗 |
Mon 1:10 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
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Mon 1:15 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.
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Multi-party referential communication in complex strategic games
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Jessica Mankewitz · Veronica Boyce · Brandon Waldon · Georgia Loukatou · Dhara Yu · Jesse Mu · Noah Goodman · Michael C Frank 🔗 |
Mon 1:25 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Mon 1:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
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Language, Context, and Action: A Semantic Machines View of Conversational AI
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Dan Klein 🔗 |
Mon 1:50 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Mon 2:00 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.
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