@inproceedings{tellings-2020-conditional,
    title = "Conditional answers and the role of probabilistic epistemic representations",
    author = "Tellings, Jos",
    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",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Ingest-2025-COMPUTEL/2020.pam-1.4/",
    pages = "26--33",
    abstract = "Conditional utterances can be used in discourse as answers to regular, non-conditional questions in situations of partial knowledge of the answerer. We claim that the probabilities assigned to possible epistemic states of A are a measure of the utility of conditional answers. A second criterion that makes a conditional answer {\textquoteleft}if p, then q' relevant has to do with the dependency between p and q that is conveyed in the statement. A conditional answer counts as relevant when this dependency leads the question asker to shift from a decision problem about q to an alternative, easier, decision problem about p."
}