{"pk":21410,"title":"Cooperative Explanation as Rational Communication","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We offer a computational framework for modeling explanation as cooperative rational communication. Under our framework, when an explainer is faced with a ``why?'' question, they reason about the question-asker's current mental model, and intervene on that mental model in order to maximize the listener's future utility. We instantiate our framework in a planning domain, and show that our framework can model human explanations about plans across a wide variety of scenarios.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Computer Science; Social cognition; Theory of Mind; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling"}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8bf5g4h6","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kartik","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chandra","name_suffix":"","institution":"MIT","department":""},{"first_name":"Tony","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chen","name_suffix":"","institution":"MIT","department":""},{"first_name":"Tzu-Mao","middle_name":"","last_name":"Li","name_suffix":"","institution":"UCSD","department":""},{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ragan-Kelley","name_suffix":"","institution":"MIT","department":""},{"first_name":"Josh","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tenenbaum","name_suffix":"","institution":"MIT","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21410/galley/11009/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21410/galley/21855/download/"}]}