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Meta-Learning to Compositionally Generalize
Henry Conklin, Bailin Wang, Kenny Smith +1
Natural language is compositional; the meaning of a sentence is a function of the meaning of its parts. This property allows humans to create and interpret novel sentences, general…
Conceptual similarity and communicative need shape colexification: an experimental study
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby +2
Colexification refers to the phenomenon of multiple meanings sharing one word in a language. Cross-linguistic lexification patterns have been shown to be largely predictable, as si…
Communicative need modulates competition in language change
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby +1
All living languages change over time. The causes for this are many, one being the emergence and borrowing of new linguistic elements. Competition between the new elements and olde…
The Emergence of Compositional Languages for Numeric Concepts Through Iterated Learning in Neural Agents
Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Serhii Havrylov +3
Since first introduced, computer simulation has been an increasingly important tool in evolutionary linguistics. Recently, with the development of deep learning techniques, researc…
Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language
Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby +1
The availability of large diachronic corpora has provided the impetus for a growing body of quantitative research on language evolution and meaning change. The central quantities i…