Abstract:Understanding the communicative intention of a speaker is the ultimate goal of language comprehension. Yet, there is very little computational work on this topic. In this chapter a general cognitive plausible model of how an addressee can understand communicative intentions is presented in mathematical detail. The key mechanism of the model is simulated role-reversal of the addressee with the speaker, i.e., the addressee puts himself in the state of the speaker andusing his own experience about plausible inten… Show more
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