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@MISC{Steels99situatedgrounded,
    author = {Luc Steels and Frederic Kaplan},
    title = {Situated Grounded Word Semantics},
    year = {1999}
}

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The paper reports on experiments in which autonomous visually grounded agents bootstrap an ontology and a shared lexicon without prior design nor other forms of human intervention. The agents do so while playing a particular language game called the guessing game. We show that synonymy and polysemy arise as emergent properties in the language but also that there are tendencies to dampen it so as to make the language more coherent and thus more optimal from the viewpoints of communicative success, cognitive complexity, and learnability. 1 Introduction The goal of studying natural language semantics is to determine the systematic relations between language utterances, their meanings and their referents. Speakers must conceptualise reality to find an adequate meaning, and they verbalise this meaning to yield an utterance transmitted to the hearer. The hearer must interpret the utterance to reconstruct the meaning and apply the meaning in this particular context to retrieve ...

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110	The synthetic modeling of language origins – Steels - 1997
109	Evolution of communication in artificial organisms – Werner, Dyer - 1991
94	Synthetic ethology: An approach to the study of communication – MacLennan - 1992
81	The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents – Steels - 1998
79	How to invent a lexicon: the development of shared symbols in interaction – Hutchins, Hazlehurst - 1995
73	An adaptive communication protocol for cooperating mobile robots – Yanco, Stein - 1993
71	Emergent adaptive lexicons – Steels - 1996
68	Biological evolution of the saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device – Hurford - 1989
45	Constructing and Sharing Perceptual Distinctions – Steels - 1997
37	The dilemma of Saussurean communication – Oliphant - 1996
19	A model of the human capacity for categorizing spatial relationships – Regier - 1995
19	Spontaneous Lexicon Change – Steels, Kaplan - 1998
13	Evolved signals: Expensive hype vs. conspiratorial whispers – Noble - 1998
2	Evolution of Lingusitic Diversity in a Simple Communication System – Arita, Koyama - 1998
2	The Emergence of a "Langage" in an Evolving Population of Neural Networks – Cangelosi, Parisi - 1996
2	La polysemie. Construction dynamique du – Victorri, Fuchs - 1996