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    "pk": 26999,
    "title": "Warm (for winter): Comparison class understanding in vague language",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Speakers often refer to context only implicitly when using lan-guage. The utterance “it’s warm outside” could signal it’swarm relative to other days of the year or just relative to thecurrent season (e.g., it’s warm for winter). Warm vaguely con-veys that the temperature is high relative to some contextualcomparison class, but little is known about how a listener de-cides upon such a standard of comparison. Here, we formalizehow world knowledge and listeners’ internal models of speechproduction can drive the resolution of a comparison class incontext. We introduce a Rational Speech Act model and de-rive two novel predictions from it, which we validate using aparaphrase experiment to measure listeners’ beliefs about thelikely comparison class used by a speaker. Our model makesquantitative predictions given prior world knowledge for thedomains in question. We triangulate this knowledge with afollow-up language task in the same domains, using Bayesiandata analysis to infer priors from both data sets",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "comparison class; pragmatics; Rational SpeechAct; Bayesian cognitive model; Bayesian data analysis"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0hq7w5bn",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "Henry",
            "last_name": "Tessler",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lopez-Brau",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Central Florida",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Noah",
            "middle_name": "D.",
            "last_name": "Goodman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}