Jeez there's always something new. Anyone know about this (which seems at a
glance loosely relevant to Ben's approach) ?
http://www.emergent-languages.org/
Overview
This site provides an introduction to the research on emergent and
evolutionary languages as conducted at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory
in Paris and the AI-Lab at the VUB in Brussels. One of the principle
objectives of this research is to identify the cognitive capabilities that
artificial agents must posses to enable, in a population of such agents, the
emergence and evolution of a language that exhibits characteristic features
identified in natural languages.
Looks like Sony- Aibo- financed. Luc Steels seems to be a principal figure.
This is quite fun:
http://www.csl.sony.fr/~py/clickerTraining.htm
Here he explains/justifies his approach:
http://www.csl.sony.fr/downloads/papers/2006/steels-06a.pdf
And how did I get to all this? From, tangentially, Construction Grammar,
which is yet another interesting aspect of cognitive linguistics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_grammar
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