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Expressivity of Emergent Languages is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability
Researchers are using deep learning models to explore the emergence of language in various language games, where simulated agents interact and develop an emergent language to solve a task.
Expressivity of Emergent Language is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability
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.
Conceptual similarity and communicative need shape colexification: an experimental study
Colexification refers to the phenomenon of multiple meanings sharing one word in a language.
Communicative need modulates competition in language change
By contrast, in topics which are increasing in importance for language users, near-synonymous words tend not to compete directly and can coexist.
Compositional Languages Emerge in a Neural Iterated Learning Model
The principle of compositionality, which enables natural language to represent complex concepts via a structured combination of simpler ones, allows us to convey an open-ended set of messages using a limited vocabulary.
Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora
Newberry et al. (Detecting evolutionary forces in language change, Nature 551, 2017) tackle an important but difficult problem in linguistics, the testing of selective theories of language change against a null model of drift.
Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language
In this work, we introduce a simple model for controlling for topical fluctuations in corpora - the topical-cultural advection model - and demonstrate how it provides a robust baseline of variability in word frequency changes over time.
The cognitive roots of regularization in language
Regularization occurs when the output a learner produces is less variable than the linguistic data they observed.
