Modeling the Emergence of Lexicons in Homesign Systems

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1223-1228

  Richie, Russell ^a   Yang, Charles ^b   Coppola, Marie ^a  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

^b 619 Williams Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

computational modeling; conventionalization; homesign; language emergence; lexicon; multiagent reinforcement learning model; sign language

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; MODELING LANGUAGES;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CONVENTIONALIZATION; HOMESIGN; LANGUAGE EMERGENCE; LEXICON; LONGITUDINAL DATA; MULTI-AGENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; MULTIAGENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNING MODEL; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING MODELS; SIGN LANGUAGE;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

EID: 84880437288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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