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    "pk": 26528,
    "title": "Talking with tact: Polite language as a balance between kindness and informativity",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Conveying information in a false or indirect manner in consid-eration of listeners’ wants (i.e. being polite) seemingly contra-dicts an important goal of a cooperative speaker: informationtransfer. We propose that a cooperative speaker considers bothepistemic utility, or utility of providing the listener new and ac-curate information, and social utility, or utility of maintainingor boosting the listener’s self-image (being polite). We for-malize this tradeoff within a probabilistic model of languageunderstanding and test it with empirical data on people’s infer-ences about the relation between a speaker’s goals, utterancesand the true states of the world.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Politeness; computational modeling; communica-tive goals; pragmatics"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dm139m8",
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        {
            "first_name": "Erica",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Yoon",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "Henry",
            "last_name": "Tessler",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Noah",
            "middle_name": "D.",
            "last_name": "Goodman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "C.",
            "last_name": "Frank",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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