Language Evolution and Computation Bibliography

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Simon Pauw
2012
Open-ended procedural semanticsPDF
Language Grounding in Robots:, pages 153--172, 2012
This chapter introduces the computational infrastructure that is used to bridge the gap between results from sensorimotor processing and language. It consists of a system called Incremental Recruitment Language (IRL) that is able to configure a network of cognitive ...
The emergence of quantifiersPDF
Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, pages 277 -- 304, 2012
Human natural languages use quantifiers as ways to designate the number of objects of a set. They include numerals, such as “three”, or circumscriptions, such as “a few”. The latter are not only underdetermined but also context dependent. We provide a cultural-evolution ...
2010
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, pages 297-304, 2010
How can we explain the enormous amount of creativity and flexibility in spatial language use? In this paper we detail computational experiments that try to capture the essence of this puzzle. We hypothesize that flexible semantics which allow agents to conceptualize reality in ...MORE ⇓
How can we explain the enormous amount of creativity and flexibility in spatial language use? In this paper we detail computational experiments that try to capture the essence of this puzzle. We hypothesize that flexible semantics which allow agents to conceptualize reality in many different ways are key to this issue. We will introduce our particular semantic modeling approach as well as the coupling of conceptual structures to the language system. We will justify the approach and show how these systems play together in the evolution of spatial language using humanoid robots.