Indirect answers as potential solutions to decision problems
Indirect answers as potential solutions to decision problems
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间接答案作为决策问题的潜在解决方案
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2014
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R. Klabunde
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作者:
J. Stevens;Anton Benz;Sebastian Reuße;Ronja Laarmann;R. Klabunde
We present a game-theoretic model of an exchange between a sales agent—an expert with access to a database of information—and a customer who poses yes/no questions to the sales agent in order to help resolve a decision problem. We first provide a game-theoretic description of such an exchange, whereby the sales agent selects an answer to the customer’s question by reasoning about a space of plausible underlying decision problems. We pro-pose a model of both answer generation and interpretation which specifies a solution to this game. The model appropriately selects indirect answers and implicatures for a particular class of yes/no questions. Implicatures can be drawn even when the speaker and hearer have partially misaligned preferences, as long as there is no incentive to lie.