The past decade has seen the rapid development of a new approach to pragmatics that
attempts to integrate insights from formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics …

Referring is one of the most basic and prevalent uses of language. How do speakers choose
from the wealth of referring expressions at their disposal? Rational theories of language use …

" American courts have no intelligible, generally accepted, and consistently applied theory of
statutory interpretation." 1 This Hart and Sacks lament is frequently quoted but misleading. 2 …

Abstract Language is used as a channel by which speakers convey, among other things,
newsworthy and informative messages, ie, content that is otherwise unpredictable to the …

Recent advances in probabilistic pragmatics have achieved considerable success in
modeling speakers' and listeners' pragmatic reasoning as probabilistic inference. However …

Processing language requires integrating information from multiple sources, including
context, world knowledge, and the linguistic signal itself. How is this information integrated …

We present data from three experiments addressing how much theory of mind reasoning is
involved in production and interpretation of ambiguous referential expressions in an artificial …

Nominal reference is very flexible—the same object may be called a dalmatian, a dog, or an
animal when all are literally true. What accounts for the choices that speakers make in how …

Grice characterized communication in terms of the cooperative principle, which enjoins
speakers to make only contributions that serve the evolving conversational goals. We show …

We propose a language production model that uses dynamic discourse information to
account for speakers' choices of referring expressions. Our model extends previous rational …