Proceedings :: First International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication
2004
Mapping, Measuring, and Modelling the Diffusion of Linguistic Material on the InternetPDF
First International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, 2004
This paper is concerned with methods for studying short-term linguistic evolution, ie, language change taking place within recent history. Such short-term language change involves the diffusion of linguistic material over time across geographical space and ...
Language emergence and grounding in sensorimotor agents and robotsPDF
First International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, 2004
The grounding of linguistic symbols in the organism'cognitive system, and indirectly in the physical and social environment in which individuals live, is one of the most important issues in recent experimental and computational approaches to language. This is normally ...
Evolutionary Fitness, Homophony and Disambiguation through Sequential ProcessesPDF
First International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, pages 27-32, 2004
Abstract Human language may have evolved through a stage when words were combined into structured linear segments, before these segments were used as building blocks for a hierarchical grammar. Experiments using information theoretic metrics show that such a ...