On the Optimality of Kinship Naming: an Information-theoretic Approach
This work collects data from four different languages, and analyzes how different communicative needs and variations in the listener model influence the informativeness--complexity trade-off, showing that trade-off optimality is not only theoretically achievable but also emerges empirically in learned communication systems.
Phong-Hao Le, Mees Lindeman, Raquel G. Alhama
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