2021/02/24 by Abhinav Tamaskar, Tamaskar, Abhinav, Roy Rinberg +5
Social Sciences · #Asian Culture and Media Studies #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Diaspora, migration, transnational identity #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Latin American and Latino Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2102.12382
openalex publication_date 2021/02/24 · openalex created_date 2024/04/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The evolution of language has been a hotly debated subject with contradicting hypotheses and unreliable claims. Drawing from signalling games, dynamic population mechanics, machine learning and algebraic topology, we present a method for detecting evolutionary patterns in a sociological model of language evolution. We develop a minimalistic model that provides a rigorous base for any generalized evolutionary model for language based on communication between individuals. We also discuss theoretical guarantees of this model, ranging from stability of language representations to fast convergence of language by temporal communication and language drift in an interactive setting. Further we present empirical results and their interpretations on a real world dataset from \rdt to identify communities and echo chambers for opinions, thus placing obstructions to reliable communication among communities.