Compositionality is an important explanatory target in emergent communication and language evolution. The vast majority of computational models of communication account for the emergence of only a very basic form of compositionality: trivial compositionality. A compositional protocol is trivially compositional if the meaning of a complex signal (e.g. blue circle) boils down to the intersection of meanings of its constituents (e.g. the intersection of the set of blue objects and the set of circles). A protocol is non-trivially compositional (NTC) if the meaning of a complex signal (e.g. biggest apple) is a more complex function of the meanings of their constituents. In this paper, we review several metrics of compositionality used in emergent communication and experimentally show that most of them fail to detect NTC - i.e. they treat non-trivial compositionality as a failure of compositionality. The one exception is tree reconstruction error, a metric motivated by formal accounts of compositionality. These results emphasise important limitations of emergent communication research that could hamper progress on modelling the emergence of NTC.

本文考察了新兴交流领域的复杂性的度量标准，并实验显示大部分标准未能探测到复杂组合的存在。其中，唯一的例外是Tree重建误差这一度量标准，它强调了异构信号和组件意义之间的区别。这些结果强调了新兴通讯研究的重要限制，可能会阻碍对NTC的建模进展。

衡量新兴交流中的非平凡组成性