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@MISC{Steels96emergentadaptive,
    author = {Luc Steels},
    title = {Emergent Adaptive Lexicons},
    year = {1996}
}

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The paper reports experiments to test the hypothesis that language is an autonomous evolving adaptive system maintained by a group of distributed agents without central control. The experiments show how a coherent lexicon may spontaneously emerge in a group of agents engaged in language games and how a lexicon may adapt to cope with new meanings that arise or new agents that enter the group. The lexicon has several characteristics of natural language lexicons, such as polysemy, synonymy and ambiguity. Keywords: origins of language, lexicon acquisition, self-organization. 1 Introduction The origins and evolution of language is still clouded in mystery, despite an extensive literature within linguistics, psychology, anthropology and neurobiology (see a recent overview in [15]). The most common hypothesis being explored in American linguistics is that language is based on a species-specific innate ability (a kind of language organ) and on the refinement of innate knowledge (universal gr...

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