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Referring as a collaborative process.

Herbert H. Clark, +1 more
- 01 Feb 1986 - 
- Vol. 22, Iss: 1, pp 1-39
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A communication task in which pairs of people conversed about arranging complex figures is described and how the proposed model accounts for many features of the references they produced is shown.
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This article is published in Cognition.The article was published on 1986-02-01. It has received 1977 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Noun phrase & Conversation.

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Grounding in communication

TL;DR: The issues taken up here are: coordination of content, coordination of process, and how to update their common ground moment by moment.
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Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue

TL;DR: A mechanistic account of dialogue, the interactive alignment account, is proposed and used to derive a number of predictions about basic language processes, and the need for a grammatical framework that is designed to deal with language in dialogue rather than monologue is considered.
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Contributing to discourse

TL;DR: A model of contributions is described as parts of collective acts performed by the participants working together and it is shown how it accounts for o variety of features of everyday conversations.
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The situativity of knowing, learning, and research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a version of the situative perspective that draws on studies of social interaction, philosophical situation theory, and ecological psychology, and a further situative synthesis is suggested that would draw on dynamic-systems theory.
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On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜

TL;DR: The authors take a step back and ask: How big is too big? What are the possible risks associated with this technology and what paths are available for mitigating those risks? They provide recommendations including weighing the environmental and financial costs first, investing resources into curating and carefully documenting datasets rather than ingesting everything on the web, carrying out pre-development exercises evaluating how the planned approach fits into research and development goals and supports stakeholder values, and encouraging research directions beyond ever larger language models.
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How to do things with words

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a series of lectures with the following topics: Lecture I * Lecture II* Lecture III * Lectures IV* Lectures V * LectURE VI * LectURES VI * LII * LIII * LIV * LVI * LIX
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Logic and conversation

H. P. Grice
- 12 Dec 1975 - 
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A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation

TL;DR: Turn-taking is used for the ordering of moves in games, for allocating political office, for regulating traffic at intersections, for the servicing of customers at business establishments, and for talking in interviews, meetings, debates, ceremonies, conversations.
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Forms of talk

TL;DR: This paper brought together five of Goffman's essays: "Replies and Responses," "Response Cries," "Footing," "The Lecture," and "Radio Talk" for discussion and analysis.
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The preference for self-correction in the organization of repair in conversation

TL;DR: In this article, a distinction is drawn between self-correction and other-correction, i.e., correction by the speaker of that which is being corrected vs. correction by some "other".