Paper

Tell Me Everything You Know: A Conversation Update System for the Rational Speech Acts Framework

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Abstract

The Rational Speech Acts (RSA) framework has been applied to an increasing number of linguistic phenomena. Despite its promise as a model of conversational reasoning, it has rarely been used to model more than a single conversation turn. I propose a system for conversation update in the RSA framework that allows iterative simulations of production and comprehension. I explore three key issues: how to simulate the Common Ground; how to update the Common Ground and participant belief states; and how to select observations.

Keywords: Rational Speech Acts, conversation modeling, Bayesian pragmatics

How to Cite:

Anderson, C. J., (2021) “Tell Me Everything You Know: A Conversation Update System for the Rational Speech Acts Framework”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 4(1), 244-253. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/j6z3-9k74