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We investigate whether and in what conditions pronominal anaphora could be acquired by intelligent agents as a means to express recently mentioned entities. The use of pronouns is conditioned by the existence of a memory recording the object previously in focus. The approach follows an evolutionary paradigm of language acquisition. Experiments show that pronouns can be easily included in a vocabulary of a community of 10 agents dialoguing on a static scene and that, generally, they enhance the communication success.
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Cristea, D., Dima, E., Dima, C. (2009). Why Would a Robot Make Use of Pronouns? An Evolutionary Investigation of the Emergence of Pronominal Anaphora. In: Lalitha Devi, S., Branco, A., Mitkov, R. (eds) Anaphora Processing and Applications. DAARC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5847. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04975-0_1
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