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title = "{O}n the {S}pontaneous {E}mergence of {D}iscrete and {C}ompositional {S}ignals",
author = "Geffen Lan, Nur and
Chemla, Emmanuel and
Steinert-Threlkeld, Shane",
editor = "Jurafsky, Dan and
Chai, Joyce and
Schluter, Natalie and
Tetreault, Joel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
month = jul,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.433",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.433",
pages = "4794--4800",
abstract = "We propose a general framework to study language emergence through signaling games with neural agents. Using a continuous latent space, we are able to (i) train using backpropagation, (ii) show that discrete messages nonetheless naturally emerge. We explore whether categorical perception effects follow and show that the messages are not compositional.",
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%A Chemla, Emmanuel
%A Steinert-Threlkeld, Shane
%Y Jurafsky, Dan
%Y Chai, Joyce
%Y Schluter, Natalie
%Y Tetreault, Joel
%S Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
%D 2020
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online
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%X We propose a general framework to study language emergence through signaling games with neural agents. Using a continuous latent space, we are able to (i) train using backpropagation, (ii) show that discrete messages nonetheless naturally emerge. We explore whether categorical perception effects follow and show that the messages are not compositional.
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Markdown (Informal)
[On the Spontaneous Emergence of Discrete and Compositional Signals](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.433) (Geffen Lan et al., ACL 2020)
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