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title = "Personae under uncertainty: The case of topoi",
author = "Noble, Bill and
Breitholtz, Ellen and
Cooper, Robin",
editor = "Howes, Christine and
Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios and
Ek, Adam and
Somashekarappa, Vidya",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference (PaM 2020)",
month = jun,
year = "2020",
address = "Gothenburg",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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pages = "8--16",
abstract = "In this paper, we propose a probabilistic model of social signalling which adopts a persona-based account of social meaning. We use this model to develop a socio-semantic theory of conventionalised reasoning patterns, known as topoi. On this account the social meaning of a topos, as conveyed in a argument, is based on the set of idealogically-related topoi it indicates in context. We draw a connection between the role of personae in social meaning and the category adjustment effect, a well-known psychological phenomenon in which the representation of a stimulus is biased in the direction of the category in which it falls. Finally, we situate the interpretation of social signals as an update to the information state of an agent in a formal TTR model of dialogue."
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Markdown (Informal)
[Personae under uncertainty: The case of topoi](https://aclanthology.org/2020.pam-1.2/) (Noble et al., PaM 2020)
ACL
- Bill Noble, Ellen Breitholtz, and Robin Cooper. 2020. Personae under uncertainty: The case of topoi. In Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference (PaM 2020), pages 8–16, Gothenburg. Association for Computational Linguistics.