Papers by Thomas P. Utting
Surprisal Minimisation over Goal-directed Alternatives Predicts Production Choice in Dialogue (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a method to model utterance production is based on information-theoretic notions of cost . a technique to generate alternative sets of utterables is proposed . |
| Approach: | They propose a procedure to generate both types of alternative sets using language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed procedure allows for speaker- and listener-oriented interpretations of different cost measures. |