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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…
Expressivity of Emergent Language is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability
Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory Mathewson +3
Researchers are using deep learning models to explore the emergence of language in various language games, where agents interact and develop an emergent language to solve tasks. We…
From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention
Robert D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Michael C. Frank +4
Languages are powerful solutions to coordination problems: they provide stable, shared expectations about how the words we say correspond to the beliefs and intentions in our heads…
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…