The Evolution of a Lexicon and Meaning in Robotic Agents Through Self-Organization (1998) [5 citations — 2 self]
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author = {Paul Vogt},
title = {The Evolution of a Lexicon and Meaning in Robotic Agents Through Self-Organization},
year = {1998}
}
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This paper discusses interdisciplinary experiments, combining robotics and evolutionary computational linguistics. The goal of the experiments is to investigate if robotic agents can originate a language, in particular a lexicon. In the experiments two robots engage in a series of so-called language games. Starting from the assumption that the robots know how to communicate and are able to detect some sensory information from the environment, the agents ground conceptual meaning and develop a lexicon. The experiments show that the robots are able to form a shared communication system. The paper investigates the influence of using non-linguistic information in the formation of the lexicon, which takes the form of pointing to give feedback on the outcome of the game. 1 Introduction In the last decade there has been an increasing interest in a dynamical approach to evolutionary linguistics (Hurford et al., 1998). In this approach language is seen as a complex dynamical system, ...
