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Do I know what I want to say? Modeling meaning uncertainty in RSA

2026-05-25

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<p>Models using the Rational Speech Act (RSA) framework typically assume that speakers are certain about the meaning being communicated. In this work we note that there are contexts in which this assumption need not hold, and propose a method (um-RSA) to incorporate this meaning uncertainty within the RSA framework. As a case study, we explore two sources of meaning uncertainty: Counting-Uncertainty (from numerica...

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Literature Corpus work: 2a49e1c3-22b2-5eb9-8de7-b0e31391fe13
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/4p9rz_v1

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