/2024-convexity-efficient-communication

Code for the "Convexity bias makes languages efficient." project.

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Online supplement: Convexity bias makes languages efficient.

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Downloading the code & requirements:

The code provided in this repository was executed using Python 3.11.2. First, clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/alexeykosh/2024-convexity-efficient-communication/

Then, navigate to the repository:

cd 2024-convexity-efficient-communication

All the required packages are listed in the requirements.txt file. To install the required packages, run the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Data:

Word Color Survey data used in this study needs to be downloaded from the WCS website. The downloaded zip file needs to be placed in the data/ directory.

After downloading the data, run the following command to extract the data:

python3 wcs_preprocessing.py

Analysis:

  • analysis.ipynb -- this notebook contains the code for the analysis of the Word Color Survey data (Study 1).
  • modelling.ipynb -- this notebook contains the code for the modelling of effects of different biases on simplicity-informativeness trade-off in artifical lexicons (Study 2).