Schedule

How do differences between Ithaca and NYC calendars influence this course? The course follows a hybrid schedule that accommodates both Ithaca and NYC. We will adjust the schedule as needed. If this is a consideration you have in mind while deciding if to take the course, do not worry! We will work on making everything work. “No class” labels are tentative and will be updated as the semester progresses. Please contact the instructor for any questions.

The guidelines provide advice and tips for reading, reviewing, and presenting papers. The selection of papers listed below is tentative.

Some of the links require library access. Please use Cornell Library’s Passkey for off-campus access.

Date	Readings	Presenter	Additional materials
Aug-31	No class
	Computational Pragmatics Series
Sep-2	Introduction		Board RSA intro Class experiment RSA introduction video (by Chris Potts)
Sep-7	No class (Labour Day)
Sep-9	Understanding the Rational Speech Act Model / Yuan et al. 2018	Yoav	Board Goodman and Frank 2016 Monroe et al. 2017 Monroe et al. 2017 video Colors corpus notebook
Sep-14	Learning from Omission / McDowell and Goodman 2019	Justin
Sep-16	A Rate-Distortion View of Human Pragmatic Reasoning / Zaslavsky et al. 2020	Travers
Sep-21	Guest lecture by Robert Hawkins		Communal lexicons A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs Why are there descriptive norms? Because we looked for them Pragmatic reasoning through semantic inference
Sep-23	Learning to Refer Informatively by Amortizing Pragmatic Reasoning / White et al. 2020	Ge
	Project proposal due on Canvas (Sep 28, 11:59pm)
Sep-28	No class
	Language and Cognition Series
Sep-30	Core Lnowledge / Spelke and Kinzler 2007	Kaelyn	NYT interview Talk
Oct-5	Guest lecture by Aida Nematzadeh		Slides
Oct-7	Prećis of the Origin of Concepts / Carey 2011	Ana	Slides
Oct-12	No class
Oct-14	No class
Oct-19	Learning Simple Spatial Terms: Core and More / Landau 2018	Lingzi	Slides
Oct-21	Parents Calibrate Speech to Their Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge / Leung et al. 2020	Khonzoda	Slides
Oct-26	Childhood as a Solution to Explore–exploit Tensions / Gopnik 2020	Noriyuki	Exploration in RL Slides
Oct-28	Constraints on Word Meaning in Early Language Acquisition / Markman 1994	Max	Slides
Nov-2	Conversational Repair and the Acquisition of Language / Clark 2020	Karen	Slides
	Recent Work in Language Grounding
Nov-4	Continual Adaptation for Efficient Machine Communication / Hawkins et al. 2020	Alane
Nov-9	Which one is the dax? Achieving mutual exclusivity with neural networks / Gulordava et al. 2020	Swati	Slides
Nov-11	Vision-and-Dialog Navigation / Thomason et al. 2019	Menglin	Slides
Nov-16	No class
Nov-18	No class
Nov-23	No class
Nov-25	No class (Thanksgiving)
Nov-30	Refer, Reuse, Reduce: Generating Subsequent References in Visual and Conversational Contexts / Takmaz et al. 2020	Magd	PhotoBook dataset paper EMNLP talk Slides
Dec-2	Learning Symmetric Collaborative Dialogue Agents with Dynamic Knowledge Graph Embeddings / He et al. 2017	Junteng	Slides
Dec-7	Latent Compositional Representations Improve Systematic Generalization in Grounded Question Answering / Bogin et al. 2020	Valts	Long workshop talk
Dec-9	No class
Dec-14	Project presentations
Dec-16	Project presentations
	Project report due on Canvas (Dec 17, 11:59pm)