{"id":7287,"date":"2015-04-27T05:07:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T09:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2015-04-26T23:25:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T03:25:34","slug":"lfrg-427-leon-bergen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2015\/04\/27\/lfrg-427-leon-bergen\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 4\/27 - Leon Bergen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/bergen\/www\/\">Leon Bergen<\/a><\/strong> (MIT)<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Monday 4\/27, 12-1:30<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nPlace: 32-D808<\/br><br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: The strategic use of noise in pragmatic reasoning<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We combine two recent probabilistic approaches to natural language understanding, exploring the formal pragmatics of communication on a noisy channel. We first extend a model of rational communication between a speaker and listener, to allow for the possibility that messages are corrupted by noise. A further extension of the model, which allows the speaker to intentionally reduce the noise rate on a word, is used to model prosodic emphasis. We show that the model derives several well-known interpretive effects associated with prosodic emphasis, including exhaustification, question-and-answer pairing, and the interaction between stress and focus-sensitive adverbs. We also use this model to provide a simplified semantics for even. Our results show that nominal amounts of actual noise can be leveraged for communicative purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Leon Bergen (MIT) Time: Monday 4\/27, 12-1:30 Place: 32-D808 Title: The strategic use of noise in pragmatic reasoning We combine two recent probabilistic approaches to natural language understanding, exploring the formal pragmatics of communication on a noisy channel. We first extend a model of rational communication between a speaker and listener, to allow for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7289,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions\/7289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}