{"pk":27387,"title":"Biases and labeling in iterative pragmatic reasoning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a series of reference game experiments(Frank and Goodman, 2012) and fits the results to a numberof Bayesian computational models in order to explore the roleof linguistic and perceptual bias in iterative pragmatic reason-ing. We first discuss the modeling choices made by Franke andJ ̈ager (2016) and others who have used similar frameworks tomodel reference game tasks. We introduce a space of differentplausible Bayesian models based on this work, and comparemodels’ fit to new experimental data to replicate the basic find-ings of Franke and J ̈ager (2016) regarding the strong role forperceptual salience (e.g., the primacy of color over shape asa differentiating property for possible referents) and linguis-tic category (e.g., a preference for nouns over adjectives) inpragmatic reference resolution. We then uncover an additionalpossible effect of what we call labeling, whereby a hearer maysimply ignore non-salient, non-differentiating semantic prop-erties, in a manner similar to how an incremental algorithm(Reiter and Dale, 1992) might ignore certain semantic proper-ties when generating referring expressions.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Iterative pragmatic reasoning; probabilistic prag-matics; reference games; computational modeling; perceptualbias; reference resolution"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/42d180tq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jon","middle_name":"Scott","last_name":"Stevens","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Ohio State University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27387/galley/17023/download/"}]}