Vagueness, Signaling and Bounded Rationality

Authors
Publication date 2011
Host editors
  • T. Onoda
  • D. Bekki
  • E. McCready
Book title New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Book subtitle JSAI-isAI 2010 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, AMBN, ISS, Tokyo, Japan, November 18-19, 2010 : revised selected papers
ISBN
  • 9783642256547
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783642256554
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event JSAI-isAI 2010 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, AMBN, ISS
Pages (from-to) 45-59
Publisher Heidelberg: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI)
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract Vagueness is a pervasive feature of natural languages that is challenging semantic theories and theories of language evolution alike. We focus here on the latter, addressing the challenge of how to account for the emergence of vague meanings in signaling game models of language evolution. We suggest that vagueness is a natural property of meaning that evolves when boundedly rational agents repeatedly engage in cooperative signaling.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25655-4_5
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