PROPOSITION: Develop initial proposition

In MoLE: Modeling Language Evolution

Description

Develop initial proposition that consists of the expressions that refer to the participants of the event to be expressed (both objects and action). Proposition will be elaborated upon in later stages of the production processs, and word may be replaced later if they turn out to be insufficient (cf. PREPARE).

Usage

PROPOSITION(speakerID, situation)

Arguments

speakerID	Pointer to speaker agent
situation	Situation with target event to be referred to and number of distractor event

Details

Words are ranked on the basis of a combination of semantic match (how well does word refer to its participant), frequency, and recency (cf. CANDIDATEORDER). The first word to be sufficiently distinctive is selected for expression.

Value

a proposition, i.e. a list:

external	representation of the external argument
internal	representation of the internal argument
verb	representation of the action argument
target	target event to be described

Author(s)

Sander Lestrade

See Also

TURN

Examples

FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation)

MoLE documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:02 p.m.