@inproceedings{geffen-lan-etal-2020-spontaneous,
    title = "{O}n the {S}pontaneous {E}mergence of {D}iscrete and {C}ompositional {S}ignals",
    author = "Geffen Lan, Nur  and
      Chemla, Emmanuel  and
      Steinert-Threlkeld, Shane",
    editor = "Jurafsky, Dan  and
      Chai, Joyce  and
      Schluter, Natalie  and
      Tetreault, Joel",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = jul,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2020.acl-main.433/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.433",
    pages = "4794--4800",
    abstract = "We propose a general framework to study language emergence through signaling games with neural agents. Using a continuous latent space, we are able to (i) train using backpropagation, (ii) show that discrete messages nonetheless naturally emerge. We explore whether categorical perception effects follow and show that the messages are not compositional."
}