Now consider the condition where a novel target name is used in the presence of a familiar and a previously unseen object: Since this is the first time the model has heard the word dax, both meanings ball and dax are equally likely because p(.|dax ) is uniform.
the meaning probabilities cannot be solely used for selecting the referent of dax, and the model has to perform some kind of induction on the potential referents in the scene based on what it has learned about each of them.