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Relevance-based Inference

Relevance-Based Inference is a pragmatic inference mechanism that identifies implicit meaning by determining the most relevant interpretation of an utterance according to principles of cognitive effort and contextual effect, as postulated in Relevance Theory.

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2017–2026

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Précis of <i>Relevance: Communication and Cognition</i>

Dan Sperber, Deirdre Wilson · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1987 · 537 citations

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Metaphor, Relevance and the 'Emergent Property' Issue

Deirdre Wilson, Robyn Carston · Mind & Language · 2006 · 426 citations

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Knowledge Transfer for Rotary Machine Fault Diagnosis

Fei Shen, Chuang Sun, Xuefeng Chen · IEEE Sensors Journal · 2019 · 243 citations

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3-Year-Old Children Make Relevance Inferences in Indirect Verbal Communication

Cornelia Schulze, Susanne Grassmann, Michael Tomasello · Child Development · 2013 · 159 citations

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From attribution maps to human-understandable explanations through Concept Relevance Propagation

Reduan Achtibat, Maximilian Dreyer, Ilona Eisenbraun et al. · Nature Machine Intelligence · 2023 · 153 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. DS
    Dan Sperber

    Institut Jean Nicod, France

    3 publications · 745 citations

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  2. DW
    Deirdre Wilson

    University College London, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 994 citations

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  3. RC
    Robyn Carston

    University College London, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 570 citations

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  4. TW
    Thomas Wiegand

    Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany

    2 publications · 164 citations

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  5. AF
    Aidan Feeney

    Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 49 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    1.5K citations

  2. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    109 citations

  3. Queen's University Belfast

    Belfast, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    49 citations

  4. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    225 citations

  5. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    225 citations

  6. Technische Universität Berlin

    Berlin, Germany

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    328 citations

  7. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    104 citations

  8. Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute

    Berlin, Germany

    2 h-index

    14 publications

    1.1K citations

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  1. Pragmatics & Cognition

    3 publications · 162 citations

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  2. Journal of Pragmatics

    3 publications · 175 citations

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  3. Thinking & Reasoning

    2 publications · 94 citations

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  4. International Review of Pragmatics

    2 publications · 103 citations

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  5. Child Development

    2 publications · 183 citations

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