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The role of pragmatic mechanisms in referential communication and categorization: An emergent communication model

2025-06-17

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<p>We model pragmatic mechanisms of referential communication and categorization in a multi-agent framework of emergent communication. Pragmatic theories and experimental work predict that speakers consider the context in their choice of referring expressions. In addition to this context-based reasoning, utility-based pragmatic reasoning about the listener's likely interpretation of an utterance influences the spe...

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Literature Corpus work: 50efa2ab-322e-560c-83bf-8f67e98370fa
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/kbfua_v1

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