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Optimizing the Mutual Intelligibility of Linguistic Agents in a Shared World (2004) [7 citations — 1 self]

by Natalia Komarova ,  Partha Niyogi
Artificial Intelligence
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Abstract:

: We consider the problem of linguistic agents that communicate with each other about a shared world. We develop a formal notion of a language as a set of probabilistic associations between form (lexical or syntactic) and meaning (semantic) that has general applicability. Using this notion, we define a natural measure of the mutual intelligibility, F (L, L # ), between two agents, one using the language L and the other using L # . We then proceed to investigate three important questions within this framework: (1) Given a language L, what language L # maximizes mutual intelligibility with L? We find surprisingly that

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