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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors White, Isadora, Pandey, Sashrika, Pan, Michelle
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 09.08.2024
Subjects
Players
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
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.
ISSN:2331-8422