%0 Conference Proceedings %T Towards functional, agent-based models of dogwhistle communication %A Henderson, Robert %A McCready, Elin %Y Howes, Christine %Y Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios %Y Ek, Adam %Y Somashekarappa, Vidya %S Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference (PaM 2020) %D 2020 %8 June %I Association for Computational Linguistics %C Gothenburg %F henderson-mccready-2020-towards %X Henderson and McCready 2017, 2018, 2019 build a novel theory of so-called ‘dogwhistle’ communication by extending the social meaning games of Burnett 2017. This work reports on an ongoing project to build systems to model the evolution of dogwhistle communication in a population based on probability monads (Erwig and Kollmansberger, 2006; Kidd, 2007). The ultimate results will be useful not just for dogwhistles, but modeling the diffusion and evolution of social meaning in populations in general. The initial results presented here is a computational implementation of Henderson and McCready 2018, which will serve as the basis for models with multiple speakers and repeated interactions. %U https://aclanthology.org/2020.pam-1.10 %P 73-77