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    "pk": 26870,
    "title": "Convention-formation in iterated reference games",
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    "abstract": "What cognitive mechanisms support the emergence of linguis-tic conventions from repeated interaction? We present re-sults from a large-scale, multi-player replication of the clas-sic tangrams task, focusing on three foundational propertiesof conventions: arbitrariness, stability, and reduction of ut-terance length over time. These results motivate a theory ofconvention-formation where agents, though initially uncertainabout word meanings in context, assume others are using lan-guage with such knowledge. Thus, agents may learn aboutmeanings by reasoning about a knowledgeable, informativepartner; if all agents engage in such a process, they success-fully coordinate their beliefs, giving rise to a conventionalcommunication system. We formalize this theory in a compu-tational model of language understanding as social inferenceand demonstrate that it produces all three properties in a sim-plified domain.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "text": null,
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "conventions; pragmatics; communication"
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    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/46r654df",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Robert",
            "middle_name": "X.D",
            "last_name": "Hawkins",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "C.",
            "last_name": "Frank",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Noah",
            "middle_name": "D.",
            "last_name": "Goodman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford University",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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