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title = "Emergent Language Generalization and Acquisition Speed are not tied to Compositionality",
author = "Kharitonov, Eugene and
Baroni, Marco",
editor = "Alishahi, Afra and
Belinkov, Yonatan and
Chrupa{\l}a, Grzegorz and
Hupkes, Dieuwke and
Pinter, Yuval and
Sajjad, Hassan",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP",
month = nov,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.blackboxnlp-1.2",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.blackboxnlp-1.2",
pages = "11--15",
abstract = "Studies of discrete languages emerging when neural agents communicate to solve a joint task often look for evidence of compositional structure. This stems for the expectation that such a structure would allow languages to be acquired faster by the agents and enable them to generalize better. We argue that these beneficial properties are only loosely connected to compositionality. In two experiments, we demonstrate that, depending on the task, non-compositional languages might show equal, or better, generalization performance and acquisition speed than compositional ones. Further research in the area should be clearer about what benefits are expected from compositionality, and how the latter would lead to them.",
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%Y Chrupała, Grzegorz
%Y Hupkes, Dieuwke
%Y Pinter, Yuval
%Y Sajjad, Hassan
%S Proceedings of the Third BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP
%D 2020
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
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%X Studies of discrete languages emerging when neural agents communicate to solve a joint task often look for evidence of compositional structure. This stems for the expectation that such a structure would allow languages to be acquired faster by the agents and enable them to generalize better. We argue that these beneficial properties are only loosely connected to compositionality. In two experiments, we demonstrate that, depending on the task, non-compositional languages might show equal, or better, generalization performance and acquisition speed than compositional ones. Further research in the area should be clearer about what benefits are expected from compositionality, and how the latter would lead to them.
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Markdown (Informal)
[Emergent Language Generalization and Acquisition Speed are not tied to Compositionality](https://aclanthology.org/2020.blackboxnlp-1.2) (Kharitonov & Baroni, BlackboxNLP 2020)
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