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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 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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Unify and Merge in Fluid Construction Grammar
Research into the evolution of grammar requires that we employ formalisms and processing mechanisms that are powerful enough to handle features found in human natural languages. Bu...
Luc Steels, Joachim De Beule
EELC
2006
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Cross-Situational Learning: A Mathematical Approach
Abstract. We present a mathematical model of cross-situational learning, in which we quantify the learnability of words and vocabularies. We find that high levels of uncertainty ar...
Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith, Richard A. Blythe...
EELC
2006
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The Human Speechome Project
The Human Speechome Project is an effort to observe and computationally model the longitudinal course of language development for a single child at an unprecedented scale. The ide...
Deb Roy, Rupal Patel, Philip DeCamp, Rony Kubat, M...
EELC
2006
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Utility for Communicability by Profit and Cost of Agreement
The inflection of words based on agreement, such as number, gender and case, is considered to contribute to clarify the dependency between words in a sentence. Our purpose in this ...
Ryuichi Matoba, Makoto Nakamura, Satoshi Tojo
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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Simulating Meaning Negotiation Using Observational Language Games
In this article, we study the emergence of associations between words and concepts using the self-organizing map. In particular, we explore the meaning negotiations among communica...
Tiina Lindh-Knuutila, Timo Honkela, Krista Lagus
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
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