Meaning games

Kôiti Hasida; Shun Shiramatsu; Kazunori Komatani; Tetsuya Ogata; Hiroshi G. Okuno

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-78197-4_21

Meaning games

Kôiti Hasida^*, Shun Shiramatsu, Kazunori Komatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno

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Abstract

Communication can be accounted for in game-theoretic terms. The meaning game is proposed to formalize intentional communication in which the sender sends a message and the receiver attempts to infer its intended meaning. Using large Japanese and English corpora, the present paper demonstrates that centering theory is derived from a meaning game. This suggests that there are no language-specific rules on referential coherence. More generally speaking, language use seems to employ Pareto-optimal ESSs (evolutionarily stable strategies) of potentially very complex meaning games. There is still much to do before this complexity is elucidated in scientific terms, but game theory provides statistical and analytic means by which to advance the study on semantics and pragmatics of natural languages and other communication modalities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - JSAI 2007 Conference and Workshops, Revised Selected Papers
Pages	228-241
Number of pages	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78197-4_21
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	21st Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI 2007 - Miyazaki, Japan Duration: 2007 Jun 18 → 2007 Jun 22

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	4914 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	21st Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI 2007
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Miyazaki
Period	07/6/18 → 07/6/22

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Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science(all)

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Hasida, K., Shiramatsu, S., Komatani, K., Ogata, T., & Okuno, H. G. (2008). Meaning games. In New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - JSAI 2007 Conference and Workshops, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 228-241). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4914 LNAI). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78197-4_21

Meaning games. / Hasida, Kôiti; Shiramatsu, Shun; Komatani, Kazunori et al.
New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - JSAI 2007 Conference and Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. 2008. p. 228-241 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4914 LNAI).

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Hasida, K, Shiramatsu, S, Komatani, K, Ogata, T & Okuno, HG 2008, Meaning games. in New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence - JSAI 2007 Conference and Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 4914 LNAI, pp. 228-241, 21st Annual Conference of The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, JSAI 2007, Miyazaki, Japan, 07/6/18. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78197-4_21

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