Proceedings :: ICMAS98
1998
A New Approach to Class Formation in Multi-Agent Simulations of Language EvolutionPDF
ICMAS98, 1998
Abstract Multi-agent models of language evolution usually involve agents giving names to internal independently constructed categories. We present an approach in which the creation of categories is part of the language formation process itself. When an agent does ...
Emergence of Grammatical Conventions in an Agent Population Using a Simplified Tree Adjoining Grammardoi.orgPDF
ICMAS98, pages 383-384, 1998
Abstract The paper describes a population of communicating agents, rewarded for successful dialogs. Agents encode and decode messages about their environment using the TAG formalism. Experimental results show that lexical and word order conventions spread ...