Syntax out of learning: The cultural evolution of structured communication in a population of induction algorithms

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1674, Issue , 1999, Pages 694-703

  Kirby, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGY; SYNTACTICS;

BIOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EMERGENT STRUCTURE; HUMAN LANGUAGE; INDUCTION ALGORITHMS; NEW APPROACHES; STRUCTURED COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84957645375     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48304-7_91     Document Type: Conference Paper

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