@inproceedings{henderson-mccready-2020-towards,
    title = "Towards functional, agent-based models of dogwhistle communication",
    author = "Henderson, Robert  and
      McCready, Elin",
    editor = "Howes, Christine  and
      Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios  and
      Ek, Adam  and
      Somashekarappa, Vidya",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference (PaM 2020)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Gothenburg",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2020.pam-1.10/",
    pages = "73--77",
    abstract = "Henderson and McCready 2017, 2018, 2019 build a novel theory of so-called `dogwhistle' communication by extending the social meaning games of Burnett 2017. This work reports on an ongoing project to build systems to model the evolution of dogwhistle communication in a population based on probability monads (Erwig and Kollmansberger, 2006; Kidd, 2007). The ultimate results will be useful not just for dogwhistles, but modeling the diffusion and evolution of social meaning in populations in general. The initial results presented here is a computational implementation of Henderson and McCready 2018, which will serve as the basis for models with multiple speakers and repeated interactions."
}