Communicate to Play: Pragmatic Reasoning for Efficient Cross-Cultural Communication in Codenames
Cultural differences in common ground may result in pragmatic failure and misunderstandings during communication. We develop our method Rational Speech Acts for Cross-Cultural Communication (RSA+C3) to resolve cross-cultural differences in common ground. To measure the success of our method, we stud...
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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09.08.2024
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Summary: | Cultural differences in common ground may result in pragmatic failure and
misunderstandings during communication. We develop our method Rational Speech
Acts for Cross-Cultural Communication (RSA+C3) to resolve cross-cultural
differences in common ground. To measure the success of our method, we study
RSA+C3 in the collaborative referential game of Codenames Duet and show that
our method successfully improves collaboration between simulated players of
different cultures. Our contributions are threefold: (1) creating Codenames
players using contrastive learning of an embedding space and LLM prompting that
are aligned with human patterns of play, (2) studying culturally induced
differences in common ground reflected in our trained models, and (3)
demonstrating that our method RSA+C3 can ease cross-cultural communication in
gameplay by inferring sociocultural context from interaction. Our code is
publicly available at github.com/icwhite/codenames. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2408.04900 |