Language Evolution and Computation Bibliography

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Jason Riggle
2003
Grounding As LearningPDF
Proceedings of Language Evolution and Computation Workshop/Course at ESSLLI, pages 87-94, 2003
Communication among agents requires (among many other things) that each agent be able to identify the semantic values of the generators of the language. This is the” grounding” problem: how do agents with different cognitive and perceptual experiences successfully ...
ECAL03, pages 525-534, 2003
This paper describes a framework for studies of the adaptive acquisition and evolution of language, with the following components: language learning begins by associating words with cognitively salient representations (``grounding''); the sentences of each language are determined ...MORE ⇓
This paper describes a framework for studies of the adaptive acquisition and evolution of language, with the following components: language learning begins by associating words with cognitively salient representations (``grounding''); the sentences of each language are determined by properties of lexical items, and so only these need to be transmitted by learning; the learnable languages allow multiple agreements, multiple crossing agreements, and reduplication, as mildly context sensitive and human languages do; infinitely many different languages are learnable; many of the learnable languages include infinitely many sentences; in each language, inferential processes can be defined over succinct representations of the derivations themselves; the languages can be extended by innovative responses to communicative demands. Preliminary analytic results and a robotic implementation are described.