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Giorgio Gosti
2012
The Evolution of Heterogeneous Naming ConventionsPDF
2012 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Social Networks and Social Contagion, pages 17--23, 2012
In the real world we observe a proliferation of regional dialects and jargons. Most of the research on naming conventions focuses on how to explain the process that allows a single naming convention to establish itself. This paper presents a different approach that aims to ...MORE ⇓
In the real world we observe a proliferation of regional dialects and jargons. Most of the research on naming conventions focuses on how to explain the process that allows a single naming convention to establish itself. This paper presents a different approach that aims to investigate why different conventions may emerge and co-exist for a certain amount of time. The naming game is an abstraction of lexical acquisition dynamics, in which n agents try to find an agreement on the names to give to objects. To understand how different heterogeneous conventions emerge, I discuss a naming game model that takes into account experimental data on human and animal learning.