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Computational Pragmatics

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Prerequisites:
Statistics I and Data Analysis
Informatik A: Algorithmen
Introduction to Computational Linguistics
[ideally] Introduction to Semantics

Pragmatic reasoning is reasoning about what a speaker may have meant by an utterance at a given occasion. Pragmatic reasoning requires listeners to draw on different sources of possibly uncertain information from context and world-knowledge. Likewise, listeners need to reason about the speaker's state of mind, her beliefs and goals, and possibly even about the speaker's idiosyncratic use of language. To combine these sources of information about what the speaker has likely meant we turn towards probabilistic modelling. This course will cover a sequence of increasingly complex models of listeners' probabilistic inferences about speaker meaning, including applications to referential communication, scalar implicatures, vagueness, generics, politeness and tropes. We will formulate models in a probabilistic programming language called WebPPL. We will exercise with model code by going through selected chapters of the web-book Probabilistic Language Understanding (problang.org).

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Ort: 93/E31
Zeiten: Termine am Mittwoch, 11.03.2020 - Freitag, 13.03.2020, Donnerstag, 19.03.2020 - Freitag, 20.03.2020 09:00 - 15:00
Erster Termin: Mittwoch, 11.03.2020 09:00 - 15:00, Ort: 93/E31
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar (Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen)
Sprache: 2
ECTS-Punkte: 4

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  • Veranstaltungen > Cognitive Science > Bachelor-Programm
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