| 2026 | ACL | On Emergent Social World Models - Evidence for Functional Integration of Theory of Mind and Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models. | Polina Tsvilodub, Jan-Felix Klumpp, Amir Pour, Jennifer Hu, Michael Franke |
| 2025 | CogSci | A Computational Account of Epistemic Vigilance: Learning from Selective Truths through Bayesian Reasoning. | Ke Fang, Robert D. Hawkins, Charley M. Wu, Michael Franke |
| 2025 | CogSci | Non-literal Understanding of Number Words by Language Models. | Polina Tsvilodub, Kanishk Gandhi, Haoran Zhao, Jan-Philipp Frnken, Michael Franke, Noah D. Goodman |
| 2024 | CogSci | Latent meaning representations in great-ape gestural communication. | Michael Franke, Manuel Bohn, Marlen Frhlich |
| 2024 | CogSci | The rationality of inferring causation from correlational language. | Daniel Lassiter, Michael Franke |
| 2024 | CogSci | Experimental Pragmatics with Machines: Testing LLM Predictions for the Inferences of Plain and Embedded Disjunctions. | Polina Tsvilodub, Paul Marty, Sonia Ramotowska, Jacopo Romoli, Michael Franke |
| 2023 | ACL | Evaluating pragmatic abilities of image captioners on A3DS. | Polina Tsvilodub, Michael Franke |
| 2023 | CogSci | How to handle the truth: A model of politeness as strategic truth-stretching. | Fausto Carcassi, Michael Franke |
| 2023 | CogSci | Overinformative Question Answering by Humans and Machines. | Polina Tsvilodub, Michael Franke, Robert D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman |
| 2021 | CogSci | Communicating uncertain beliefs with conditionals: Probabilistic modeling and experimental data. | Britta Grusdt, Michael Franke |
| 2021 | CogSci | Why and how to study the impact of perception on language emergence in artificial agents. | Xenia Ohmer, Michael Marino, Michael Franke, Peter Knig |
| 2020 | CogSci | Reinforcement of Semantic Representations in Pragmatic Agents Leads to the Emergence of a Mutual Exclusivity Bias. | Xenia Ohmer, Peter Knig, Michael Franke |
| 2020 | CogSci | Modeling manipulative language use. | Vinicius Macuch Silva, Chris Cummins, Michael Franke |
| 2019 | CogSci | Subjectivity-based adjective ordering maximizes communicative success. | Michael Franke, Gregory Scontras, Mihael Simonic |
| 2019 | CogSci | Uncertain evidence statements and guilt perception in iterative reproductions of crime stories. | Elisa Kreiss, Michael Franke, Judith Degen |
| 2019 | CogSci | Using replication studies to teach research methods in cognitive science. | Josh de Leeuw, Janet K. Andrews, Kenneth R. Livingston, Michael Franke, Joshua K. Hartshorne, Robert X. D. Hawkins, Jordan Wagge |
| 2018 | CogSci | Emerging abstractions: Lexical conventions are shaped by communicative context. | Robert X. D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Kenny Smith, Noah D. Goodman |
| 2018 | CogSci | Dynamic speech adaptation to unreliable cues during intonational processing. | Timo Rttger, Michael Franke |
| 2018 | CogSci | Not unreasonable: Carving vague dimensions with contraries and contradictions. | Michael Henry Tessler, Michael Franke |
| 2017 | CogSci | Effects of transmission perturbation in the cultural evolution of language. | Thomas Brochhagen, Michael Franke |
| 2017 | CogSci | Modeling transfer of high-order uncertain information. | Michele Herbstritt, Michael Franke |
| 2017 | CogSci | Surprisingly: Marker of Surprise Readings or Intensifier? | Anthea Schller, Michael Franke |
| 2016 | CogSci | Learning biases may prevent lexicalization of pragmatic inferences: a case study combining iterated (Bayesian) learning and functional selection. | Thomas Brochhagen, Michael Franke, Robert van Rooij |
| 2016 | CogSci | What does the crowd believe? A hierarchical approach to estimating subjective beliefs from empirical data. | Michael Franke, Fabian Dablander, Anthea Schller, Erin Bennett, Judith Degen, Michael Henry Tessler, Justine T. Kao, Noah D. Goodman |
| 2016 | CogSci | Definitely maybe and possibly even probably: efficient communication of higher-order uncertainty. | Michele Herbstritt, Michael Franke |
| 2014 | CogSci | Typical use of quantifiers: A probabilistic speaker model. | Michael Franke |
| 2014 | CogSci | Meaning and Use of Gradable Adjectives: Formal Modeling Meets Empirical Data. | Ciyang Qing, Michael Franke |
| 2013 | CogSci | Cost-Based Pragmatic Inference about Referential Expressions. | Judith Degen, Michael Franke, Gerhard Jger |