From Word Models to World Models: Translating from Natural Language to the Probabilistic Language of Thought
2023. [All Versions]. Rational meaning construction, a computational framework for language-informed thinking that combines neural language models with probabilistic models for rational inference. Linguistic meaning is framed as a context-sensitive mapping from natural language…
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