Abstract. Over the past five years, the topic of the origins of language is gaining prominence as one of the big unresolved questions of cognitive science. Artificial Intelligenc...
Abstract. In this paper we propose to regard an Agent Communication Language (ACL) as a set of conventions to act on a fragment of institutional reality, defined in the context of...
Abstract. In this paper, a computational model of a successful negotiated communication system is presented, in which language agents develop their own meanings in response to thei...
This paper describes a protocol language which can provide agents with a flexible mechanism for coherent dialogues. The protocol language does not rely on centralised control or ...
When we start to engage machines in conversation, what language will it be? While natural language is our preferred means of communication, natural language processing is by no mea...