Paris Workshop on Games, Decisions, and Language

University Paris-Panthéon-Assas, June 15-16, 2023


Program

University Paris-Panthéon-Assas, 12, Place du Panthéon
Salle des conseils

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Thursday, June 15, 2023

8h30-9h: Welcome
by the organizers


9h-10h30: Session 1
chaired by Olivier Bos and Christina Pawlowitsch
Daniel Rothschild
"Reflections on Applying Game Theory to Language"
Benjamin Spector et Paul Égré
"Comparing Game-Theoretic and
Semantic Treatments of Vague Meaning"

Coffee break (Appartement Décanal)

11h00-12h30: Session 2
chaired by Lucie Ménager
Heather Burnett and Gabriel Thiberge
"Gaming in Theory and Practice: Using Video Games to Study Strategic Language Use"
Joel Sobel
"Organizational Codes in a Changing Environment"

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14h00-15h30: Session 3
chaired by Luca Gasparri
Milica Denić
"Indefinite Pronouns Optimize
the Simplicity/Informativeness Trade-Off"
Itzhak Gilboa
"Rationality and the Bayesian Paradigm"

Coffee break (Appartement Décanal)

16h-18h00: Session 4
chaired by Michael Greinecker
Christina Pawlowitsch
"Implicatures in Bayesian Dialogues"
Herakles Polemarchakis
"Rational Dialogues"
Daniel Toneian
"Statistical Agreeing"


Poster presentations
(1st day, 13h - Appartement Décanal):


Valeria Burdea: "Questioning"
Emilien Macault: "Stocastic Consensus and the Shadow of Doubt"
Arsen Pidburachynskyi: "Simulating Bayesian Dialogues"


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Friday, June 16, 2023

8h00-9h00: Early morning coffee session
Sidartha Gordon
"Effective Communication in Cheap-Talk Games"

9h00-10h30: Session 5
chaired by Marie Laclau-Vigeral
Françoise Forges
"Neologisms in Cheap-Talk Games"
Christoph Kuzmics
"Robust Equilibria in Binary Cheap-Talk Games"

Coffee break (Appartement Décanal)

11h00-12h30: Session 6
chaired by Frederic Koessler
Andreas Blume
"Language in Sender-Receiver Games: Theory and Experiments”
Tristan Tomala
"Sender-Receiver Problems over Limited Communication Channels"

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14h00-15h30: Session 7
chaired by Chantal Marlats
Michael Franke
"Cognitively Plausible Models of Context Representation and Pragmatic Reasoning"
Friederike Reichel
"The Coarseness of Moral Language"


Coffee break (Appartement Décanal)

16h-18h: Session 8
chaired by Joseph Abdou
Gerhard Schaden
"Cost in Language:
Cheap Talk and Free Speech"
Jonathan Ginzburg
"Actual and Possible Language Games"
Closing discussion

With the financial support of: University Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Labex MME DII, and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.

Labex LEMMA Université Panthéon-Assas IJN