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title = "Emergent Linguistic Phenomena in Multi-Agent Communication Games",
author = "Harding Graesser, Laura and
Cho, Kyunghyun and
Kiela, Douwe",
editor = "Inui, Kentaro and
Jiang, Jing and
Ng, Vincent and
Wan, Xiaojun",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)",
month = nov,
year = "2019",
address = "Hong Kong, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/D19-1384",
doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-1384",
pages = "3700--3710",
abstract = "We describe a multi-agent communication framework for examining high-level linguistic phenomena at the community-level. We demonstrate that complex linguistic behavior observed in natural language can be reproduced in this simple setting: i) the outcome of contact between communities is a function of inter- and intra-group connectivity; ii) linguistic contact either converges to the majority protocol, or in balanced cases leads to novel creole languages of lower complexity; and iii) a linguistic continuum emerges where neighboring languages are more mutually intelligible than farther removed languages. We conclude that at least some of the intricate properties of language evolution need not depend on complex evolved linguistic capabilities, but can emerge from simple social exchanges between perceptually-enabled agents playing communication games.",
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%Y Jiang, Jing
%Y Ng, Vincent
%Y Wan, Xiaojun
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%D 2019
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%X We describe a multi-agent communication framework for examining high-level linguistic phenomena at the community-level. We demonstrate that complex linguistic behavior observed in natural language can be reproduced in this simple setting: i) the outcome of contact between communities is a function of inter- and intra-group connectivity; ii) linguistic contact either converges to the majority protocol, or in balanced cases leads to novel creole languages of lower complexity; and iii) a linguistic continuum emerges where neighboring languages are more mutually intelligible than farther removed languages. We conclude that at least some of the intricate properties of language evolution need not depend on complex evolved linguistic capabilities, but can emerge from simple social exchanges between perceptually-enabled agents playing communication games.
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Markdown (Informal)
[Emergent Linguistic Phenomena in Multi-Agent Communication Games](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1384) (Harding Graesser et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
ACL
- Laura Harding Graesser, Kyunghyun Cho, and Douwe Kiela. 2019. Emergent Linguistic Phenomena in Multi-Agent Communication Games. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 3700–3710, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.