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Publications

Here are our amazing publications.

2025

  1. Achimova, A., Franke, M., & Butz, M. V. (2025). The alignment model of indirect communication. PloS One, 20(5), e0323839.
  2. Hu, J., Lepori, M. A., & Franke, M. (2025). Linking forward-pass dynamics in Transformers and real-time human processing. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2504.14107.
  3. Hawkins, R., Tsvilodub, P., Goodman, N. D., Bergey, C., & Franke, M. (2025). Relevant answers to polar questions. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8tnfd_v1
  4. Tsvilodub, P., Hawkins, R. D., & Franke, M. (2025). Integrating Neural and Symbolic Components in a Model of Pragmatic Question-Answering. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2506.01474.

2024

  1. Yu, Q., Schlotterbeck, F., Wang, H., Reichmann, N., Stolterfoht, B., Eckardt, R., & Butt, M. (2024). Ad Hoc Compounds for Stance Detection. In A. Bhatia, G. Bouma, A. S. Doğruöz, K. Evang, M. Garcia, V. Giouli, L. Han, J. Nivre, & A. Rademaker (Eds.), Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024 (pp. 231–242). ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.mwe-1.27/
  2. Tsvilodub, P., Wang, H., Grosch, S., & Franke, M. (2024). Predictions from language models for multiple-choice tasks are not robust under variation of scoring methods. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2403.00998.
  3. Tsvilodub, P., Marty, P., Ramotowska, S., Romoli, J., & Franke, M. (2024). Experimental Pragmatics with Machines: Testing LLM Predictions for the Inferences of Plain and Embedded Disjunctions. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2405.05776.
  4. Lassiter, D., & Franke, M. (2024). The rationality of inferring causation from correlational language. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.
  5. Franke, M., Bohn, M., & Fröhlich, M. (2024). Latent meaning representations in great-ape gestural communication. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.
  6. Franke, M., Tsvilodub, P., & Carcassi, F. (2024). Bayesian Statistical Modeling with Predictors from LLMs. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2406.09012.
  7. Tsvilodub, P., Franke, M., & Carcassi, F. (2024). Cognitive Modeling with Scaffolded LLMs: A Case Study of Referential Expression Generation. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2407.03805.
  8. Macuch Silva, V., Lorson, A., Franke, M., Cummins, C., & Winter, B. (2024). Strategic use of English quantifiers in the reporting of quantitative information. Discourse Processes, 61(10), 498–523.
  9. Hu, J., & Franke, M. (2024). Deep and shallow thinking in a single forward pass. NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Behavioral Machine Learning.

2023

  1. Hawkins, R. D., Franke, M., Frank, M. C., Goldberg, A. E., Smith, K., Griffiths, T. L., & Goodman, N. D. (2023). From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention. Psychological Review, 130(4), 977.
  2. Coretta, S., Casillas, J. V., Roessig, S., Franke, M., Ahn, B., Al-Hoorie, A. H., Al-Tamimi, J., Alotaibi, N. E., AlShakhori, M. K., Altmiller, R. M., & others. (2023). Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human-speech analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 6(3), 25152459231162567.
  3. Tsvilodub, P., & Franke, M. (2023). Evaluating pragmatic abilities of image captioners on a3ds. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2305.12777.
  4. Carcassi, F., & Franke, M. (2023). How to handle the truth: A model of politeness as strategic truth-stretching. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45(45).
  5. Tsvilodub, P., Franke, M., Hawkins, R. D., & Goodman, N. D. (2023). Overinformative question answering by humans and machines. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2305.07151.
  6. Tsvilodub, P., van Tiel, B., & Franke, M. (2023). The role of relevance, competence, and priors for scalar inferences. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 2, 288–298.
  7. Grusdt, B., Liu, M., & Franke, M. (2023). Testing the influence of QUDs on the occurrence of Conditional Perfection. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 2, 104–116.

2022

  1. Ohmer, X., Marino, M., Franke, M., & König, P. (2022). Mutual influence between language and perception in multi-agent communication games. PLoS Computational Biology, 18(10), e1010658.
  2. van Tiel, B., Sauerland, U., & Franke, M. (2022). Meaning and use in the expression of estimative probability. Open Mind, 6, 250–263.
  3. Rohde, H., Hoek, J., Keshev, M., & Franke, M. (2022). This better be interesting: A speaker’s decision to speak cues listeners to expect informative content. Open Mind, 6, 118–131.

2021

  1. Grusdt, B., Lassiter, D., & Franke, M. (2021). Probabilistic modeling of rational communication with conditionals. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2105.05502.