INVESTIGATING INFLECTION VIA LANGUAGE SIMULATION

Date of Award

2019

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Natural Sciences

First Advisor

Kalmanovich, Gary

Area of Concentration

Computer Science

Abstract

This thesis investigates the role of inflection in speech by modeling and simulating that aspect of language in computer simulation. This thesis proposes a simple language simulation model that can be used to tested the communicative power and methods of expression that emerge when inflection is added to a situated task between two agents. While this thesis was not able to create a environment that lead the the formation of the complex communication needed for the analysis of how infection can be expressed, it was able to measure the increase in communicative power from the presence of inflection. It also proposes extensions to the experiment setup for future work in fulfilling the second goal of the thesis.

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