As humans, we use linguistic elements referencing time, such as before or tomorrow, to easily share past experiences and future predictions. While temporal aspects of the language have been considered in computational linguistics, no such exploration has been done within the field of emergent communication. We research this gap, providing the first reported temporal vocabulary within emergent communication literature. Our experimental analysis shows that a different agent architecture is sufficient for the natural emergence of temporal references, and that no additional losses are necessary. Our readily transferable architectural insights provide the basis for the incorporation of temporal referencing into other emergent communication environments.

翻译：作为人类，我们使用诸如“之前”或“明天”等指称时间的语言元素，来轻松分享过往经历与未来预测。尽管计算语言学已对语言的时间维度进行了探讨，但在涌现通信领域却尚未有此类探索。我们针对这一空白展开研究，首次在涌现通信文献中报告了时间词汇的出现。实验分析表明，不同的智能体架构足以使时间指称自然涌现，且无需额外损失函数。我们提出的易于迁移的架构见解，为将时间指称融入其他涌现通信环境奠定了基础。