Experiments on the Acquisition of the Semantics and Grammatical Constructions Required for Communicating Propositional Logic Sentences

Josefina Sierra; Josefina Santibáñez

Autonomic Computing and Communications Systems. Third International ICST Conference, Autonomics 2009, Limassol, Cyprus, September 9-11, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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Experiments on the Acquisition of the Semantics and Grammatical Constructions Required for Communicating Propositional Logic Sentences

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11482-3_16,
    author={Josefina Sierra and Josefina Santib\^{a}\`{o}ez},
    title={Experiments on the Acquisition of the Semantics and Grammatical Constructions Required for Communicating Propositional Logic Sentences},
    proceedings={Autonomic Computing and Communications Systems. Third International ICST Conference, Autonomics 2009, Limassol, Cyprus, September 9-11, 2009, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={AUTONOMICS},
    year={2012},
    month={4},
    keywords={Language acquisition logical categories induction self-organisation},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11482-3_16}
}

Josefina Sierra
Josefina Santibáñez
Year: 2012
Experiments on the Acquisition of the Semantics and Grammatical Constructions Required for Communicating Propositional Logic Sentences
AUTONOMICS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11482-3_16

Josefina Sierra¹^,*, Josefina Santibáñez²^,*

1: Technical University of Catalonia
2: University of La Rioja

*Contact email: jsierra@lsi.upc.edu, josefina.santibanez@unirioja.es

Abstract

We describe some experiments which simulate a grounded approach to language acquisition in which a population of autonomous agents without prior linguistic knowledge tries to construct at the same time a conceptualisation of its environment and a shared language. The conceptualisation and language acquisition processes in each individual agent are based on general purpose cognitive capacities, such as categorisation, discrimination, evaluation and induction. The emergence of a shared language in the population results from a process of self-organisation of a particular type of linguistic interaction which takes place among the agents in the population.

Keywords: Language acquisition logical categories induction self-organisation

Published: 2012-04-13

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11482-3_16