Occupation
Michael Franke is a computational cognitive scientist, appointed as Professor of Pragmatics and Linguistics and coopted as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Tübingen.
He is interested broadly in reasoning and language use in humans and machines.
His work uses statistical, cognitive and evolutionary modeling, human-experimental methods, and simulation experiments.
He is also interested in foundational questions concerning the relation between empirical data, abstract theory and explicit mathematical modeling.
Currently, he is the coordinator of the DFG-funded Priority Area LaSTing and a co-speaker of the DFG-funded CRC Common Ground.
Please contact the secretary's office for all organizational matters.
Research and teaching resources
Scripts for course: Introduction to Logic.
Web-book for course: Understanding Large Language Models.
Framework for web-based experiments: magpie.
R package for interpretation of categorical predictors in Bayesian regression: faintr.
Writing reproducible research papers in pure LaTeX: R_eproducible_LaTeX.
Web-book for course Introduction to Data Analysis.
Web-book for course Bayesian regression: Theory & Practice.
Tutorial paper on Bayesian data analysis (with Timo B. Roettger).
Tutorial paper on softmax in probabilistic modeling (with Judith Degen).
Web-book on probabilistic pragmatics (with Gregory Scontras and Michael Henry Tessler): Probabilistic Language Understanding.
Output (Pending)
Jennifer Hu, Michael A. Lepori and Michael Franke manuscript.
Todd Snider and Michael Franke manuscript.
Output (Completed)
2025
Robert D. Hawkins, Polina Tsvilodub, Claire Augusta Berger, Noah D. Goodman and Michael Franke In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
Polina Tsvilodub, Kanishk Gandhi, Haoran Zhao, Jan-Philipp Fränken, Michael Franke and Noah D. Goodman. Proceedings of CogSci 47.
Polina Tsvilodub, Robert D. Hawkins and Michael Franke. Society for Computation in Linguistics 8(1).
Asya Achimova, Michael Franke and Martin V. Butz. PLoS One 20(5): e0323839.
2024
Jennifer Hu and Michael Franke. NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Behavioral Machine Learning.
Vinicius Macuch Silva, Alexandra Lorson, Michael Franke, Chris Cummuns, and Bodo Winter. Discourse Processes.
Polina Tsvilodub, Michael Franke and Fausto Carcassi. arXiv.
Michael Franke, Polina Tsvilodub and Fausto Carcassi. arXiv.
Michael Franke, Manuel Bohn and Marlen Fröhlich. In: Proceedings of CogSci.
Daniel Lassiter and Michael Franke.
In: Proceedings of CogSci.
Polina Tsvilodub, Paul Marty, Sonia Ramotowska, Jacopo Romoli and Michael Franke. In: Proceedings of CogSci.
Polina Tsvilodub and Hening Wang and Sharon Grosch and Michael Franke arXiv
2023
Robert D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Michael C. Frank, Kenny Smith, Thomas L. Griffiths and Noah D. Goodman. In: Psyhological Review. 130(4) 977-1016.
Stefano Coretta, Joseph V. Casillas, Simon Roessig, Michael Franke, many more, and Timo B. Roettger. In: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 6(3).
Polina Tsvilodub and Michael Franke. In: Proceedings of ACL
Fausto Carcassi and Michael Franke. In: Proceedings of CogSci
Polina Tsvilodub, Michael Franke, Robert D. Hawkins and Noah D. Goodman. In: Proceedings of CogSci
Polina Tsvilodub, Bob van Tiel and Michael Franke. In: Proceedings of ELM 2.
Britta Grusdt, Mingya Liu and Michael Franke. In: Proceedings of ELM 2 15.
2022
Xenia Ohmer, Michael Marino, Michael Franke, and Peter König. In: PLOS Computational Biology 18(10): e1010658.
Bob van Tiel, Michael Franke and
Uli Sauerland. In: Open Mind 6:250-263
Britta Grusdt, Daniel Lassiter and Michael Franke. In: Semantics and Pragmatics 15.
Hannah Rohde, Jet Hoek, Maayan Keshev and Michael Franke. In: Open Mind 6 p. 118-131.
2021
Xenia Ohmer, Michael Franke, and Peter König. In: Cognitive Science 46.1
Chris Cummins and Michael Franke. In: Frontiers in Communication 6
Gregory Scontras, Michael Henry Tessler and Michael Franke. arXiv
Xenia Ohmer, Michael Marino, Michael Franke and Peter König. In: Proceedings of CogSci
Britta Grusdt and Michael Franke. In: Proceedings of CogSci
Bob van Tiel, Michael Franke and
Uli Sauerland. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
118 (video abstract)
Vinicius Macuch-Silva and Michael Franke. In: Frontiers Psychology 12
Timo B. Roettger, Michael Franke
and Jennifer Cole. In: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 36.3
2020
Xenia Ohmer, Peter König and Michael Franke. In: Proceedings of CogSci.
Cosima Schneider, Nadine Bade, Michael Franke and Markus Janczyk. In: Psychological Research
Michael Franke and Leon Bergen. In: Language 96.2.
Michael Henry Tessler and Michael Franke. PsyArXiv.
Michael Franke, Giulio Dulcinati and Nausicaa Pouscoulous. In: Topics in Cognitive Science 12.2.
2019
Cosima Schneider, Carolin Schonard, Michael Franke, Gerhard Jäger and Markus Janczyk. In: Cognition 193.
Jose Pedro Correia and Michael Franke. In: Vagueness and Rationality. Ed. by Richard Dietz, Springer Berlin, pp. 87-113.
Petra Augurzky, Michael Franke and Rolf Ulrich. In: Cognitive Science 43.8.
Timo B. Roettger and Michael Franke. In: Cognitive Science 43.7.
Michael Franke, Gregory Scontras and Mihael Simonic. In: Proceedings of CogSci. Ed. by A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert and C. Freksa, pp. 344-350.
Elisa Kreiss, Michael Franke and Judith Degen. In: Proceedings of CogSci. Ed. by A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert and C. Freksa, pp. 2051-2057.
Michele Herbstritt and Michael
Franke. In: Cognition 186, pp.50-71 (preprint).
2018
Thomas Brochhagen, Michael Franke and Robert van Rooij. In: Cognitive Science (2018) 42.2, pp. 2757-2789.
Michael Franke and Jose Pedro
Correia. In: British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 69.4, pp. 1037-1067.
Robert X.D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Kenny Smith and Noah D. Goodman. In: Proceedings of CogSci 40 Ed. by Charles Kalish, Martina Rau, Jerry Zhu and Timothy T. Rogers, pp. 463-468.
Timo B. Roettger and Michael Franke. In: Proceedings of CogSci 40 Ed. by Charles Kalish, Martina Rau, Jerry Zhu and Timothy T. Rogers, pp. 966-971.
Michael Henry Tessler and Michael Franke. In: Proceedings of CogSci 40 Ed. by Charles Kalish, Martina Rau, Jerry Zhu and Timothy T. Rogers, pp. 1108-1113.
2017
Paolo Galeazzi and Michael Franke. In: Philosophy of Science 84.3, pp. 544-573.
Anthea Schöller and Michael Franke. In: Linguistic Vanguard 3.1 (final version).
Michele Herbstritt and Michael Franke. In: Proceedings of CogSci 39, Ed. by Glenn Gunzelmann, Andrew Howes, Thora Tenbrink and Eddy Davelaar, pp. 507-511
Thomas Brochhagen & Michael Franke. In: Proceedings of CogSci 39, Ed. by Glenn Gunzelmann, Andrew Howes, Thora Tenbrink and Eddy Davelaar, pp. 1678-1683
Anthea Schöller and Michael Franke. In: Proceedings of CogSci 39, Ed. by Glenn Gunzelmann, Andrew Howes, Thora Tenbrink and Eddy Davelaar, pp. 3070-3075
Michael Franke. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. (online access)
Michael Franke, Fabian Schlotterbeck and Petra Augurzky. Journal of Semantics 34.1, pp. 153-199 (pre-final version).
2016
Michael Franke. In: Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 25.3-4, pp. 355-377
Anthea Schöller and Michael Franke. In: Proceeding of Sinn und Bedeutung 20, Ed. by Nadine Bade et al., pp. 622-639
Michael Franke, Fabian Dablander, Anthea Schöller, Erin Bennett, Judith Degen, Michael Henry Tessler, Justine Kao and Noah D. Goodman. In: Proceedings of CogSci 38, Ed. by Anna Papafragou et al., pp. 2669-2674
Michele Herbstritt and Michael Franke. In: Proceedings of CogSci 38, Ed. by Anna Papafragou et al., pp. 2639-2644
Thomas Brochhagen, Michael Franke and Robert van Rooij. In: Proceedings of CogSci 38, Ed. by Anna Papafragou et al., pp. 2081-2086
Michael Franke and Judith Degen. In: PLoS ONE, 11.5, e0154854.
Michael Franke and Gerhard Jäger. In:
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 35.1, pp. 3-44
Michael Franke, In: Preproceedings of "Trends in Experimental Pragmatics", Ed. by Fabienne Salfner and Uli Sauerland, pp. 56-63
2015
Anthea Schöller and Michael Franke (2015). In: Proceedings of SALT 25. Ed. by Sarah D'Antonio et al., pp. 143-162
Robert van Rooij and Michael Franke (2015). In: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2015 Edition), Ed. by Edward N. Zalta
Ciyang Qing and Michael Franke (2015). In: Bayesian Natural Language Semantics and Pragmatics, Ed. by Hans-Christian Schmitz and Henk Zeevat, Heidelberg, Springer, pp. 201-220
Michael Franke and Robert
van Rooij (2015). In: Models of Strategic Reasoning: Logics, Games and Communities, Ed. by Johan van Benthem, Sujata Gosh and Rineke Verbrugge, Heidelberg, Springer, Chapter 8
2014
Roland Mühlenbernd and
Michael Franke (2014). In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Social Intelligence, Ed. by Andreas Herzig and Emiliano Lorini, pp. 28-39
Ciyang Qing and Michael Franke (2014). In:
Proceedings of SALT 2014, Ed. by Todd Snider et al., pp. 23-41
Michael Franke and
Elliott Wagner (2014). In: Language and
Linguistics Compass, 8/9, pp. 359-372
Michael Franke and
Gerhard Jäger (2014). In: Pragmatics, Semantics and
the Case of Scalar Implicatures. Ed. by Salvatore
Pistoia Reda, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, pp. 170-200
Michael
Franke (2014). In: Proceedings of CogSci. Ed. by Paul Bello et al. Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX, pp. 487-492
Ciyang Qing and Michael Franke (2014). In: Proceedings
of CogSci. Ed. by Paul Bello et al. Austin, TX:
Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1204-1209
Michael Franke and Paolo Galeazzi
(2014). In:
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Reasoning
About Other Minds Ed. by Jakub Szymanik &
Rineke Verbrugge, pp. 11-15.
Michael Franke
(2014). In:
Linguistics & Philosophy, 37.3, pp. 249-256
Michael Franke
(2014). In:
Erkenntnis, 79.4, pp. 729-767
Michael Franke
(2014). In: The Evolution of Language:
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference
(Evolang 10). Ed. by Erica A. Cartmill et
al. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 82-89
2013
Michael
Franke (2013). In: The dynamic,
inquisitive and visionary life of \phi, ?\phi, and
\Diamond \phi: A
festschrift for Jeroen Groenendijk, Martin Stokhof,
and Frank Veltman. Ed. by Maria Aloni, Michael
Franke and Floris Roelofsen. Online publication, pp. 96-104
Maria Aloni and Michael
Franke (2013). In: From Grammar to Meaning: The
Spontaneous Logicality of Language. Ed. by Ivano
Caponigro and Carlo Cecchetto. New York: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 108-138
Judith Degen, Michael
Franke and Gerhard Jäger (2013). In:
Proceedings of CogSci 35
. Ed. by: Markus Knauff et al. Austin, TX Cognitive Science
Society, pp. 376-381
Elliott Wagner and Michael
Franke (2013). The British Journal for the
Philosophy of Science 64(4), pp. 883-887
Michael Franke
(2013). "Game Theoretic Pragmatics". In:
Philosophy Compass 8.3, pp. 269-284
2012
Robert van Rooij and Michael
Franke (2012). ''Promises and Threats with
Conditionals and
Disjunctions''. In: Discourse and Grammar: From
Sentence Types to Lexical Categories. Ed. by Günther Grewendorf and Thomas Ede
Zimmermann. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton, pp. 69-88
Michael Franke
(2012). "On Assertoric and Directive Signals and
the Evolution of Dynamic Meaning". In:
International Review of Pragmatics 4.2, pp. 232-260
Judith Degen and Michael
Franke (2012), Optimal
Reasoning About Referential Expressions. In: Proceedings of
SeineDial. Ed. by S. Brown-Schmidt et al., pp. 2-11
Michael Franke and Maria
Aloni (2012).Conflicts in
Interpretation - A Critical Review. In:
Journal of Cognitive Science 13, pp. 197-209
Michael Franke (2012). "On Scales, Salience &
Referential Language Use". In: Amsterdam
Colloquium 2011. Ed. by Maria Aloni, Floris
Roelofsen, and Katrin Schulz. Lecture Notes in
Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer,
pp. 311-320
Michael Franke (2012). "Scales, Salience and Referential Safety: The Benefit of Communicating
the Extreme". In: The Evolution of Language:
Proceedings of 9th International Conference (EvoLang
9). Ed. by Thomas C. Scott-Phillips et
al. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 118-124
Roland Mühlenbernd and Michael Franke (2012). "Signaling
Conventions: Who Learns What Where and When in a Social Network". In: The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of 9th International Conference (EvoLang 9). Ed. by Thomas C. Scott-Phillips et al. Singapore: World
Scientific, pp. 242-249
Michael Franke and Gerhard Jäger (2012). "Bidirectional
Optimization from Reasoning and Learning in
Games". In: Journal of Logic, Language and
Information 21.1, pp. 117-139
Michael Franke, Tikitu de Jager, and Robert van Rooij
(2012). "Relevance in Cooperation and
Conflict". In: Journal of Logic and
Computation 22.1, pp. 23-54
2011
Michael Franke (2011). "Quantity Implicatures,
Exhaustive Interpretation, and Rational
Conversation". In: Semantics & Pragmatics 4.1,
pp. 1-82
Michael Franke, Gerhard Jäger, and Robert van
Rooij (2011). "Vagueness, Signaling & Bounded
Rationality". In: JSAI-isAI 2010. Ed. by T. Onoda,
D. Bekki, and E. Mc- Cready. Springer, pp. 45-59
Michael Franke and Tikitu de Jager (2011). "Now
that you mention it: Awareness Dynamics in Discourse
and Decisions". In: Language, Games, and
Evolution. Ed. by Anton Benz et al. LNAI
6207. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 60-91
2010
Michael Franke (2010). "Free Choice from Iterated
Best Response". In: Amsterdam Colloquium
2009. Ed. by Maria Aloni and Katrin Schulz. LNAI
6042. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 295-304
Michael Franke (2010). "Semantic Meaning and
Pragmatic Inference in Non-cooperative
Conversation". In: Interfaces: Explorations in
Logic, Language and Computation. Ed. by Thomas
Icard and Reinhard Muskens. Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg:
Springer-Verlag, pp. 13-24
2009
Michael Franke (2009). "An Epistemic
Characterization of Bidirectional Optimality Based on
Signaling Games". In: Papers in Pragmasemantics. Ed. by
Anton Benz and Reinhard Blutner. Vol. 51. ZAS Papers in
Linguistics. Berlin: Center for General Linguistics (ZAS),
pp. 111-134
Michael Franke (2009). Signal to Act: Game Theory in
Pragmatics. PhD Thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam
2008
Michael Franke (2008). "Interpretation of Optimal
Signals". In: New Perspectives on Games and
Interaction. Ed. by Krzysztof R. Apt and Robert van
Rooij. Vol. 4. Texts in Logic and
Games. Amsterdam University Press, pp. 297-310
Michael Franke (2008). "Meaning and Inference in
Case of Conflict". In: Proceedings of the 13th
ESSLLI Student Session. Ed. by Kata Balogh,
pp. 65-74
Michael Franke (2008). "Pseudo-Imperatives and Other Cases of
Conditional Conjunction and Conjunctive
Disjunction". In: 'Subordination' versus
'Coordination' in Sentence and Text - From a
Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Ed. by Cathrine
Fabricius-Hansen and Wiebke Ramm. Studies in Language
Companion Series (SLCS). Amsterdam, Philadelphia:
John Benjamins, pp. 255-279
2007
Michael Franke (2007). "The Pragmatics of Biscuit
Conditionals". In: Proceedings of the 16th Amsterdam
Colloquium. Ed. by Maria Aloni, Paul Dekker, and Floris
Roelofsen, pp. 91-96
Michael Franke and Tikitu de Jager (2007). "The Relevance of
Awareness". In: Proceedings of the 16th
Amsterdam Colloquium. Ed. by Maria Aloni, Paul
Dekker, and Floris Roelofsen, pp. 97-102
Michael Franke (2007). "Independence and Decision-Contexts
for Non-Interference Conditionals". In: Proceedings of the
ESSLLI 2007 Workshop on Language, Games and
Evolution. Ed. by Anton Benz, Christian Ebert, and Robert
van Rooij, pp. 9-16
2006
Michael Franke (2006). "Teleological
necessity and Only". In: Proceedings of the ESSLLI Student
Session. Ed. by Janneke Huitink and Sophia Katrenko,
pp. 14-26
2005
Michael Franke (2005). "How and how not to
employ discourse relations to account for
pseudo-imperatives". In: Proceedings of the 15th Amsterdam
Colloquium. Ed. by Paul Dekker and Michael Franke, pp. 83-88
Michael Franke
(2005). Pseudo-Imperatives. MSc-Thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam