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EELC
2006
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Lexicon Convergence in a Population With and Without Metacommunication
How does a shared lexicon arise in population of agents with differing lexicons, and how can this shared lexicon be maintained over multiple generations? In order to get some insig...
Zoran Macura, Jonathan Ginzburg
EELC
2006
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How Grammar Emerges to Dampen Combinatorial Search in Parsing
Abstract. According to the functional approach to language evolution (inspired by cognitive linguistics and construction grammar), grammar arises to deal with issues in communicati...
Luc Steels, Pieter Wellens
EELC
2006
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Evolving Distributed Representations for Language with Self-Organizing Maps
We present a neural-competitive learning model of language evolution in which several symbol sequences compete to signify a given propositional meaning. Both symbol sequences and p...
Simon D. Levy, Simon Kirby
EELC
2006
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Symbol Grounding Through Cumulative Learning
Abstract. We suggest that the primary motivation for an agent to construct a symbol-meaning mapping is to solve a task. The meaning space of an agent should be derived from the tas...
Samarth Swarup, Kiran Lakkaraju, Sylvian R. Ray, L...
EELC
2006
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How Do Children Develop Syntactic Representations from What They Hear?
nstructional schemas, both specific and abstract. Children are thought to start out with concrete pieces of language and to gradually develop more schematic constructions. All cons...
Elena Lieven