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On temporal references in emergent communication

On temporal references in emergent communication
On temporal references in emergent communication
As humans, we use linguistic elements referencing time, such as before or tomorrow, to easily share past experiences and future predictions. While temporal aspects of the language have been considered in computational linguistics, no such exploration has been done within the field of emergent communication. We research this gap, providing the first reported temporal vocabulary within emergent communication literature. Our experimental analysis shows that a different agent architecture is sufficient for the natural emergence of temporal references, and that no additional losses are necessary. Our readily transferable architectural insights provide the basis for the incorporation of temporal referencing into other emergent communication environments.
cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.MA
Lipinski, Olaf
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Sobey, Adam J.
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Cerutti, Federico
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Norman, Timothy J.
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Lipinski, Olaf
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Sobey, Adam J.
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Cerutti, Federico
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Norman, Timothy J.
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Abstract

As humans, we use linguistic elements referencing time, such as before or tomorrow, to easily share past experiences and future predictions. While temporal aspects of the language have been considered in computational linguistics, no such exploration has been done within the field of emergent communication. We research this gap, providing the first reported temporal vocabulary within emergent communication literature. Our experimental analysis shows that a different agent architecture is sufficient for the natural emergence of temporal references, and that no additional losses are necessary. Our readily transferable architectural insights provide the basis for the incorporation of temporal referencing into other emergent communication environments.

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Published date: 10 October 2023
Additional Information: 26 pages, 13 figures. Code available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/TRG-E137/README.md
Keywords: cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.MA

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Local EPrints ID: 483905
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/483905
PURE UUID: f408ef15-5cb1-4a5d-8f85-5d09e176475f
ORCID for Olaf Lipinski: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2023-7617
ORCID for Adam J. Sobey: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6880-8338
ORCID for Timothy J. Norman: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6387-4034

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Date deposited: 07 Nov 2023 18:17
Last modified: 18 Mar 2024 03:58

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Author: Olaf Lipinski ORCID iD
Author: Adam J. Sobey ORCID iD
Author: Federico Cerutti

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