Papers by Diana Rodríguez Luna
Internal and external pressures on language emergence: least effort, object constancy and frequency (2020.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies show that the emergent languages rarely display salient features inherent to natural languages, such as compositionality of meaning and generalisation to novel objects. |
| Approach: | They propose to formalise the principle of least effort through an auxiliary objective and explore several game variants inspired by the principle 'object constancy' they find that the proposed sources of pressure result in emerging languages with less redundancy, more focus on high-level conceptual information, and better abilities of generalisation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed sources of pressure result in emerging languages with less redundancy, more focus on high-level conceptual information, and better abilities of generalisation. |