Proceedings :: Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts
1999
Learning, Bottlenecks and Infinity: a working model of the evolution of syntactic communicationPDF
Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, 1999
Abstract Human language is unique in having a learned, arbitrary mapping between meanings and signals that is compositional and recursive. This paper presents a new approach to understanding its origins and evolution. Rather than turning to natural ...
Language Learning from Fragmentary InputPDF
Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, pages 121-129, 1999
Abstract A model of vocabulary and grammar acquisition is presented. Two agents are involved in the simulation, a mother and a child. The mother is equipped from the outset with a substantial knowledge of language, in the form of two sets of rules. Her lexical rules map ...