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    "pk": 30117,
    "title": "The language of causation",
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    "abstract": "People use varied language to express their causal understand-ing of the world. But how does that language map onto peo-ple’s underlying representations, and how do people choosebetween competing ways to best describe what happened? Inthis paper we develop a model that integrates computationaltools for causal judgment and pragmatic inference to addressthese questions. The model has three components: a causalinference component which computes counterfactual simula-tions that capture whether and how a candidate cause madea difference to the outcome, a literal semantics that mapsthe outcome of these counterfactual simulations onto differentcausal expressions (such as “caused”, “enabled”, “affected”,or “made no difference”), and a pragmatics component thatconsiders how informative each causal expression would befor figuring out what happened. We test our model in an ex-periment that asks participants to select which expression bestdescribes what happened in video clips depicting physical in-teractions.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "text": null,
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "causality; language; counterfactuals; pragmatics;intuitive physics."
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    ],
    "section": "Poster Session 3",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/07d3n8s6",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Ari",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Beller",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Erin",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bennett",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Tobias",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gerstenberg",
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            "institution": "Stanford University",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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