@inproceedings{kunkele-dobnik-2025-learning,
    title = "Learning to Refer: How Scene Complexity Affects Emergent Communication in Neural Agents",
    author = {K{\"u}nkele, Dominik  and
      Dobnik, Simon},
    editor = "Evang, Kilian  and
      Kallmeyer, Laura  and
      Pogodalla, Sylvain",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics",
    month = sep,
    year = "2025",
    address = {D{\"u}sseldorf, Germany},
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/2025.iwcs-1.26/",
    pages = "299--307",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-316-6",
    abstract = "We explore how neural network-based agents learn to map continuous sensory input to discrete linguistic symbols through interactive language games. One agent describes objects in 3D scenes using invented vocabulary; the other interprets references based on attributes like shape, color, and size. Learning is guided by feedback from successful interactions. We extend the CLEVR dataset with more complex scenes to study how increased referential complexity impacts language acquisition and symbol grounding in artificial agents."
}