They Will Say That We Were Savages

What will they say? – Public Announcement Games

Dynamic epistemic logic describes the possible information-changing actions available to individual agents, and their knowledge preand post conditions. For example, public announcement logic describes actions in the form of public, truthful announcements. However, little research so far has considered describing and analysing rational choice between such actions, i.e., predicting what rational ...

What will they say? - Public Announcement Games

Dynamic epistemic logics describe the epistemic consequences of actions. Public announcement logic, in particular, describe the consequences of public announcements. As such, these logics are descriptive – they describe what agents can do. In this paper we discuss what rational agents will or should do. We consider situations where each agent has a goal, a typically epistemic formula he or she ...

Will they come and will they stay?

Grounding, Justification, Adaptation: Towards Machines That Mean What They Say

Meaningful language use rests on the grounding of the language in the nonlinguistic world and in the practices of language users. This grounding is built up and maintained in interaction, through Conversational Grounding, which is the interactive process with which interlocutors build mutual understanding; Justification, the ability to explain and provide reasons for one’s language use; and Ada...

Why do we say what we say the way we say it?

This paper seeks answer to the question why exactly we say what we say the way we say it. Although Giora (1997, 2003) argued that cognitively prominent salient meanings, rather than literal meanings, play the most important role both in production and comprehension of language, most attention in pragmatics research has been focused on comprehension rather than production. This paper claims that...