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Establishing Linguistic Conventions in Task-Oriented Primeval Dialogue

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Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment. The Processing Issues

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In this paper, we claim that language is likely to have emerged as a mechanism for coordinating the solution of complex tasks. To confirm this thesis, computer simulations are performed based on the coordination task presented by Garrod & Anderson (1987). The role of success in task-oriented dialogue is analytically evaluated with the help of performance measurements and a thorough lexical analysis of the emergent communication system. Simulation results confirm a strong effect of success mattering on both reliability and dispersion of linguistic conventions.

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  1. Computational Linguistics Group, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

    Martin Bachwerk & Carl Vogel

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  1. Martin Bachwerk
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  1. Dept. of Psychology and IIASS, International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, Second University of Naples, Vietri sul Mare, SA, Italy

    Anna Esposito

  2. School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Alessandro Vinciarelli

  3. Department of Telecommunication and Media Informatics, Laboratory of Speech Acoustics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1117, Budapest, Hungary

    Klára Vicsi

  4. TELECOM ParisTech, CNRS-LTCI UMR 5141, 75014, Paris, France

    Catherine Pelachaud

  5. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Anton Nijholt

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Bachwerk, M., Vogel, C. (2011). Establishing Linguistic Conventions in Task-Oriented Primeval Dialogue. In: Esposito, A., Vinciarelli, A., Vicsi, K., Pelachaud, C., Nijholt, A. (eds) Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and Enactment. The Processing Issues. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6800. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25775-9_4

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