@inproceedings{chun-cheung-emerson-2024-colour,
    title = "Colour Me Uncertain: Representing Vagueness with Probabilistic Semantics",
    author = "Chun Cheung, Kin  and
      Emerson, Guy",
    editor = "Pyatkin, Valentina  and
      Fried, Daniel  and
      Stengel-Eskin, Elias  and
      Liu, Alisa  and
      Pezzelle, Sandro",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language",
    month = mar,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Malta",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/add-emnlp-2024-awards/2024.unimplicit-1.8/",
    pages = "82--89",
    abstract = "People successfully communicate in everyday situations using vague language. In particular, colour terms have no clear boundaries as to the ranges of colours they describe. We model people`s reasoning process in a dyadic reference game using the Rational Speech Acts (RSA) framework and probabilistic semantics, and we find that the implementation of probabilistic semantics requires a modification from pure theory to perform well on real-world data. In addition, we explore approaches to handling target disagreements in reference games, an issue that is rarely discussed in the RSA literature."
}