NeLLCom-X: A Comprehensive Neural-Agent Framework to Simulate Language Learning and Group Communication

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13999v2
• Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:13:20 GMT
• Title: NeLLCom-X: A Comprehensive Neural-Agent Framework to Simulate Language Learning and Group Communication
• Authors: Yuchen Lian, Tessa Verhoef, Arianna Bisazza,
• Abstract summary: Recently introduced NeLLCom framework allows agents to first learn an artificial language and then use it to communicate. We extend this framework by introducing more realistic role-alternating agents and group communication.
• Score: 2.184775414778289
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances in computational linguistics include simulating the emergence of human-like languages with interacting neural network agents, starting from sets of random symbols. The recently introduced NeLLCom framework (Lian et al., 2023) allows agents to first learn an artificial language and then use it to communicate, with the aim of studying the emergence of specific linguistics properties. We extend this framework (NeLLCom-X) by introducing more realistic role-alternating agents and group communication in order to investigate the interplay between language learnability, communication pressures, and group size effects. We validate NeLLCom-X by replicating key findings from prior research simulating the emergence of a word-order/case-marking trade-off. Next, we investigate how interaction affects linguistic convergence and emergence of the trade-off. The novel framework facilitates future simulations of diverse linguistic aspects, emphasizing the importance of interaction and group dynamics in language evolution.

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